Illus Suydam (11 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. printing postage stamps line engraving.

Hardcover. Condition: good. 2nd print. NOT an ex library book. Book with black cloth spine, dark red boards, small paste on plate on cover. Wear on spine ends, splits starting. Hinge starting to crack on rear endpaper. 330 pages including the Bibliography.

468 pp. Illustrated by E. H. Suydam. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Bookplate neatly tipped in; better than very good in a nice jacket with a little use at the top of the spine and an external tape repair at the top of the back panel.

Condition: Very Good. Illus By Author (illustrator). Quarto, softcover, near fine in red and white pictorial wraps., protected in cellophane wrap. Here for the firwt time in one volume are the very first Cholly and Flytrap adventures by creator/writer/artist extraordinaire Suydam. These stories are terrifying but funny, surreal yet familiar--tales of action and adventure, told by a master storyteller with a startlingly unique point of view. Unpaginated. About 50 pp. Book.

First Thus. Lovely illustrations in this colorful history of The City. Solid clean tight attractive copy. 6-1/4 x 9-1/4, 351 pp, bibliography, full-pg b/w dwgs, sheet-protected color frontispiece, illus endpapers. VeryGood unmarked contents, a few small faint stains to boards. Hardcover in navy/green cloth boards w b/w paste-on illus, no jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. DJ in mylar sleeve, shows minor wear and tanning. Pages lightly tanned and clean.

Intimate illustrated history of strange New Orleans. Solid clean tight copy. 7 x 9, 334 pp, index, bibliography, full-pg b/w dwgs, color frontispiece, deckled fore-edge. VeryGood+ unmarked, a few spots inside & to edges, bright boards; in Good+ unclipped jacket with small chips to spine ends, dampstain at bottom of spine.- in Brodart. Hardcover in black/brick cloth boards w decorative inset, in color illus jacket.

Unknown printing. Beautifully illustrated history of The Big Easy. Clean tight copy in very bright crisp boards. 6-1/2 x 9-1/4, 334 pp, index, many full-pg dwgs, b/w embellisehmnts, color frontispiece dwg, endpaper dwg, deckled fore-dge. VeryGood unmarked, in Fair-Good soiled jacket w edgewears, small tears. Hardcover in brick/black boards w paste-on illus, in color illus jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition (first printing stated, with number 1 in brackets on last page of text) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and dated in the year of publication, and signed by the illustrator as well) Very good/very good minus (the book is in solid shape, with some minor soiling on the boards, no writing inside (aside from the signatures), and a small San Francisco bookshop sticker on the back pastedown; the dj is somewhat yellowed along the spine, with moderate chipping at the spine extremities, and a small amount of chipping at the corners). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition Scribner's 1940 with A and seal. No jacket. Top and bottom of spine chipped, corner tips worn through, rear bottom edge has some silverfishing and chipping, spine has a vertical crease-line. Pages yellowed with scattered foxing, minor blemishes. Binding has some cracking, remains reasonably firm. Owner names to inside front cover/front endpaper.

First American Edition. First printing. Inscribed to the front flyleaf: "To James H.S. Ellis, with the author's grateful regard and high esteem, Arthur Pound, New York City March 1, 1940." Octavo (23cm). Publisher's original heavy grain sea green cloth titled in silver gilt to spine and front board. [x];[1];398pp. Tight and strong, some darkening to the spine [anel and a little minor scuffing to spine ends and corners; internally clean and fresh, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated throughout, authorial inscription to front flyleaf. A very good, handsome copy. The book, an architectural and social history of Detroit, lavishly illustrated, is inscribed to James "Jimmy" Ellis, President of the Kudner advertising agency, one of the earliest "Mad Men" and the promotional genius who made automobile corporations like Buick into lasting household names. Signed.