Held John, First Edition (179 results)

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. John Held Jr. (illustrator). 1st Edition. tall 8vo, illustrated with woodcuts by John Held, Jr., 49 pgs., pages clean and tight. Bound in hard boards, very good and wrapped in a very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Held, John (illustrator). 1st Edition. In purple cloth. Wear to cloth at spine ends.

Pictorial Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. In red boards with yellow lettering, mild fraying to spine ends, gift inscription on first page. Illustrated throughout by the artist who exemplified the jazz age with his humorous little flappers and "shieks".

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Musty scent. Pages foxed. Short gifter's inscription on front endpage. In protective mylar cover. (ballads, american, folk songs, english, united states ).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. John Held Jr. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Gilt lettering on brown & red cloth covered boards in a pictorial brown paper dust jacket. 10-1/4" x 7-1/4", 50pp. The dust jacket has two short closed tears.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. cover art by W.B. Smith; b/w Photos; Cartoon By Wallgreen; John Held, Jr. (pg 11) (illustrator). 1st. 28 clean, unmarked pages; pictorial stapled wraps; includes: Howard Mingos (The Air Line That Takes Freight; Hot Air Balloons); Richard McNally Legion Post in New York city; Frank Shamy (A Stout heart and a Strong arm); Allworth Webb (poem) ; Legion News; Humor, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Held, John (illustrator). First Edition. A nice vintage copy of this fun book. Great illustrations. Some light signs of age. We ship fast.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1972 stated first edition of 49 pages with wonderful engravings by John Held, Jr. Very good plus with a faint acid stain on the fep from the dust jacket flap and light bumping at the bottom of the spine and lightly bent corners. Dust jacket is good with a very tiny hole on the back cover near the spine, small tear at top of back cove rand wear at the top of the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, ex library, book, binding, DJ and text in very good condition, 1/4 bound red cloth boards, brown cloth spine cover with gilt stamped title, binding tight and square no damage, DJ fine with price not clipped, text clean and unmarked few library markings.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Printing. Solid with a spine roll and thin reading creases along the spine on the front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. John Held (illustrator). 1st Edition. Red boards. Pages are fragile. Corners missing on several pages. Light age toning. Limited to 2050 copies. Overall in good condition. 49 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Good. cover art by Alex Schomburg (illustrator). First Edition. Pictorial wrappers [about 6.5" x 9"] [edges trimmed flush], 162 pages, illustrated including a rear cover ad for sample suits from Progress Tailoring Co. With Stories by S. S. Held, Arthur Leo Zagat, John W. Campbell Jr, Paul Ernst, E. Everett Evans, Oliver E. Saari, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, Gabriel Wilson A Good with the spine and some cover creasing, tape to and around the top of the spine, shallow lower corner chip to the front cover, text paper tanning. See Photos bx 419E.

Singleissuemagazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers about 6.5" x 9", edges trimmed flush , 162 pages, illustrated Very good copy horizontal crack across the spine, lower corner creasing to the front cover which also has a few short fore-edge tears, paper tanning/tanned. 74.

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. (American ballads, English folk songs).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. John Held Jr. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Poetry, music. Covers rubbed and soiled, corners and spine ends bumped and frayed, spine titles faded out. Interior clean, hinges cracked and repaired, pages tanned.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 50 pages, woodcuts by John Held, Jr. throughout. Dust jacket edge wear and crease, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 853832.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. John Held (illustrator). 191 pages + ads. Not a true biography but a satire (possibly by George S. Chappell using a pseudonym). Illustrated with black & white photos, decorative line drawings by John Held. Dust jacket with large chunks gone from top and bottom of spine. Browning on front cover of bas-relief. Foxing to edges, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 501043.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Illustrated by Held, John Jr. (illustrator). Stated First Edition. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; hard cover shows only a short wrinkle and some fading at the spine head; unclipped jacket has a rectangle of toning and adhesive residue at the lower right front, a very small chip at the spine heel, and some wrinkling at spine ends, but is otherwise sound and striking, now protected in a clear sleeve. 48pp. A republication of the 1930 limited edition, now with a foreword by Carl J. Weinhardt; the text of the ballad is presented as recalled by Held, the verses selected from among the many versions he had heard.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition, First Printing. The book is very good with light edge wear in a fair price clipped dust jacket with rear flap separated, heavily chipped at edges and small closed tears at edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, cloth, 186pp., ills. First edition, presumed. Good: mild soiling, rubbing and fading to the cloth with lightly bumped upper corners; hinges solid but binding slightly shaken; text and illustrations clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. NO DJ, SOME SPOTTING TO THE SPINE AREA, CLEAN TEXT.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Held, John, Jr. (illustrator). First Edition. Very good in boards with red felt cloth over front and back boards and cloth spine. Dampstain at the lower corner of the first 22 pages. One of 2050 copies.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. John Held Jr (illustrator). First Edition. A Good copy in brown cloth a bit darkened at the spine, but with the lettering legible. Tanning at the outer edges of the text block, tight and clean within. Owner's name and paperclip shadow at the front endpaper, bookplate inside the front cover. Briefly inscribed and signed by the author in 1931 (to a previous owner). Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book size about 7 by 8 1/2 inches with some 190 pages. Bound in cream paper over boards with a black cloth spine. Illustrated end papers (Same for front and rear). Illustrated throughout by John Held Jr. Musical arrangement by Helen Ramsey. Follow-up to the very successful book of the same type. Fun and games (And singing) for the 'Roaring Twenties'. Covers darkened; wear through the thin paper at the tips area; spine lettering darkened. GOOD.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. H.R. Ballinger, R.E. Whitney, R.F. Schabelitz, Frank Street, John Held, Jr. Reginald Birch, David Robinson, Pruett Carter, etc, (Many Ads also) (illustrator). 1st. has items by/about 1920's Fashion; Gene Stratton-Porter, Mrs. Howard Linn, Suicide, Fannie Heaslip Lea (Fiction), Virginia B. Reynolds (Fiction), Olive Edens (Fiction), Harold Bell Wright (Fiction) Gilbert Parker (Fiction) Frances Hodgson Burnett. H.E. Charlot, May Edginton, Princess Eugene Murat (Duchess of Alba), Scarlet Fever, Etc.rear cover has some loss of about 2", not torn but pulled away with tape.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. John Held, Jr. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Magenta cloth, lettered/illus. in gilt. Covers show partial fading apparently dye lightening from moisture contact, with mild spotting. Text block edges somewhat soiled. Rubbed lower front joint. Former owner's signature inked on front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Firm binding. 1st ptg. xii,13-219 pp., illus. by John Held, Jr. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 186 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Black; Pictorial Brown Endpapers. Light Wear, Spot Of Fraying At Top Of Front Spine Edge, No Other Fraying; Cloth Browned On Spine And Edges; Hinges Solid; Clean. Modernist Architectural Bookplate With Signature Of California Wine Expert Robert L Balzer And From His Library.

First Edition. First edition. Small softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 28 through November 22, 1969. Includes 6 black and white illustrations, chronology, and checklist. A clean near fine copy in stapled wrappers.