John Adolf Held (2 results)

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Large 8vo. Pp. [8], 417. Introduction by William Hodapp. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering and green pattern stamped on spine. Cloth a touch worn. In the illustrated dust jacket, faded and price-clipped, that's defective: front panel and front flap detached; a third of the rear flap excised. Inscribed by William Hodapp on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads, "To Jack, too young to have known about all this (so was I, really, thank God) but a guy who I think would get a smile out of some of it - + to remember '51. / Regards, Bill". Inexplicably, among the excerpts are those from Hitler and John Maynard Keynes. The dust jacket illustration by John Held, Jr., is a cartoonish send up the 1920s, a tuxedo-wearing swell holding an oversized cocktail shaker grins broadly while his flapper gal-pal shimmies. Dust jacket is now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve. John Held, Jr. (dust jacket illustration) (illustrator). Signed.…

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: 232. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1940 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: 232.…