Harold a Wise (14 results)

Stapled. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Martha Sawyers (cover), Until Spring (Donald Teague), The Family Jewels (Robert C Gellert), Three Men and Diana (Walter Biggs), If God Can Be Amused (Karl Goodwin), Death Rides the Mesa (Harold Von Schmidt), How Wise a Crook (Winold Reiss) (illustrator). First Edition. The December 1933 issue of The American Magazine. Stories and articles it contains include Until Spring, a story by Robert Carse, The Family Jewels, a story by Clarence Budington Kelland, part III of a novel by Three Men and Diana, Kathleen Norris, If God Can Be Amused, a story by Lloyd C Douglas, Death Rides the Mesa, part IV of a novel by Tom Gill, Wall Street and Your Money, an article about the average investor and the stock market, How Wise a Crook?, an article by J Edgar Hoover, and numerous other vintage Depression Era articles and ads. Condition issues include soiling along the top edge of the front cover, light pencil notes on the top corner of the back cover, and a 4" closed tear at the bottom left spine hinge. The interior is clean and tight. A good to very good copy of a vintage magazine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Magazine, cover and text all in very good condition, light wear on spine (not creased), top front corner lightly creased, text clean and unmarked no names no stamps.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Tchetchet, Victor (cover) (illustrator). Light wear and staining on right of back cover. Spine frayed and torn at extremities. Staining on spine. Stains and small tears on right of front cover. Warren Lawes of Sing Sing tells his greatest story of youth and crime. Gary Cooper Lucky Strike ad on back cover. 1 inch fold at bottom of back cover. 146pp. Ask for a photograph. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Warren, Georgia (illustrator). Foxing on cover. 3/8 inch tears extremities. Wear on spine. Nicks on back covet. Slight darkening on back cover. 3/4 inch tear bottom right of back cover. 3/8th inch tear at top right of back cover. Includes an installment of A Woman Aflame - Isadora Duncan's Amazing True Story. Cover art by Georgia Warren. 140pp. Ask for a photograph. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Boris, M. I. (photo cover) (illustrator). Fraying across top of covers. Wear on spine. Chipping extremities. Darkening, discoloration, surface tears on back cover. Includes an installment of A Woman Aflame - Isadora Duncan's Amazing True Story. Cover photo of Hope Hampton. Includes: Flo Ziegfeld's Romance with My Mother. 146pp. Ask for a photograph. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Tchetchet, Victor (cover) (illustrator). 1/2 inch folds on right corners. Wear along that edge. 3/8th inch tear at bottom of spine. Wear on spine. Wear, darkening, foxing on back cover and 1/2 inch fold bottom left of back cover. Minor chips and tears on edges. Includes an installment of A Woman Aflame - Isadora Duncan's Amazing True Story. 122pp. Ask for a photograph. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; softcovers; minor edgewear; o/w in very good condition. This is a heavy volume; extra shipping might be required for priority mail or international orders. Book.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Cannert, Jules (cover) (illustrator). Rust at staples. Foxing on left of front cover. 1/4 th inch crease bottom right of front cover. Extremities frayed. 1 inch tear at top of spine. Wear and chip on spine. Darkening and stain on back cover. Front cover shows Barbara Stanwyck by Jules Cannert. 146pp. Ask for a photograph. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Frayed and chipping extremities. Wear on spine. Rust stains. Foxing on left of front cover and surface tears at top of front cover. Darkening and stains on back cover. Includes article installment of The Romantic Temptations of Clark Gable. Cover shows "Clark Gable and Joan Crawford in an intense love scene." 128pp. Ask for a photograph. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcovers; minor shelfwear; o/w in very good condition.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcovers; minor shelfwear; o/w in very good condition.

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Fair. First Edition. The Wide World Magazine: The Magazine for Men - September 1916 - No. 221, Vol. 37. Uncommon British monthly magazine/journal. Several contributors, including Walter G. Patterson, Lacey Amy, B. St. Lawrence, S.J. Harold, A.E. Johnson, Frank Wise, & several others. Cover story is "In the Grip of the Hip Sings", by Walter G. Patterson, & illustrated by A. Gilbert. Numerous b&w illustrations & photographs throughout, plus many wonderful classic vintage advertisements. Includes b&w frontispiece. Front & rear covers printed in colour. Printed & published in Great Britain. "The Wide World Magazine was a British monthly illustrated publication which ran from April 1898 to December 1965. The magazine was founded by well-known publisher George Newnes, also famous for Tit-Bits, The Strand Magazine, Country Life & others. It described itself as 'an illustrated magazine of true narrative' & each month purported to feature 'true-life' adventure & travel stories gathered from around the world. Its motto was 'Truth is stranger than fiction'. Some famous names occasionally wrote for the magazine, & it was copiously illustrated with photographs, as well as black & white drawings." Staplebound pictorial wraps. NOTE: A FAIR to GOOD COPY ONLY. Much handling wear, soiling & wear & creasing to covers & spine, old tape-repair to spine (peeled off), front cover entirely detached (but present), rear cover loose, light insect nibbling to cover edge, mild foxing & marginal toning, staples rusting, otherwise a solid complete softcover copy. Internally VERY GOOD. 387-480pp + 24pp vintage advertisements. Uncommon. SB-29.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 116. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1955 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 116.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Gilbert, A.; Elcock, Howard; Evison, G. Henry; Webb, Arch;Buchanan, Fred; Somerfield, Thomas; Gillett, Frank; Evison, G.H. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 385-480 plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage advertisements. Features: In the grip of the "Hip Sings" - Walter G. Patterson became a member of a Chinese secret society (Part I); Hunting the sword-fish on the south coast of Nova Scotia - with great photos; The fatal wood - a graphic account of a dramatic episode in the great Battle of Verdun; Minnie Florea's ordeal - a hurricane swept her to sea where she, the only member of her father's party of 13 to survive, battled the storm for 24 hours; The heart of Sweden - an interesting description of rural Sweden with wonderful photos; Three men in a tree - how they survived a flood in Australia; Comedies of the war - WWI anecdotes; Sandy McLain's Log-Jam - how a young Scotsman broke up one of the biggest log-jams in the history of Minnesota; Our adventures at the Chincha Islands - a lively time picking up a load of guano; From Job to Job around the World - part VII - Alfred Fletcher describes his adventures in Constantinople, his trip through Italy and across Europe to Paris - where he was shut in Voltaire's tomb for a night!; Where Grass is King - a woman's account of her live on a homestead in a region of America where grass is used for everything - with nice photos; My Romance - how Miss L.V. Smith saved a crowded train from destruction; Photo of a six-foot shark caught in the Tigris at Baghdad Great full-page ad for the Red Cross Line. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backsrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Men, September 1916 in the Grip of Hip Sings Hip Sings" - Walter G. Patterson became a member of a Chinese secret society (Part I); Hunting the sword-fish on the south coast of Nova Scotia - with great photos; Th.