Jacobs Elmer Illus (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo. 37 pages. Limited edition, 121/1500. SIGNED by Higdon. Fraying to one corner. Two others starting to fray. Some rubbing to spine ends. Some sunning to covers. Else, very good condition. (R4). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Black cloth spine over burgundy paper-covered boards with white paper title onlay to front cover, illustrated endpapers, illustrated in color throughout. Toning from newsprint laid in between pages xii-xiii, else a fine copy. Is it a manufacturer's catalog? A literary zine? An art journal? From the manufacturer's website: "Throughout the 1930s and continuing through the 1950s, PHOENIX history was spoken elegantly through The Phoenix Flame, a stylish magazine that combined advertising and product highlights of the Phoenix Metal Cap Company along with poetry, humor and art. Editor-in-Chief, Hal Higdon, better known as HIG to the Phoenix Flame?s readers, gracefully juxtaposed style and function in a monthly publication that reached far beyond the manufacturers of products who purchased metal closures. This beautifully bound, high quality, saddle-stitched, print piece brought the wit and wisdom of life alive through full-color illustrations, black and white photography, and world-class writing.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Various paginations. 29 cm. Illustrations in b&w and partial colour. Black cloth spine and brown paper boards. Two labels, one cream paper, the other raised copper. Corners and edges worn, dampstains to boards. Some paper stuck on rear board. Rear pastedown a bit wrinkled. Some discolouration or staining to lower margins and upper corners. Lower edge also has slight "bleeding" from covers. Occasional thumbing. "Short stories, articles, editorials, witticisms." All from Phoenix Flame, 1925 to 1947, selected by the editor.…