John Gincano (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. John Gincano (illustrator). Fiction. This book is in good condition considering its age. The cover has corner knocks and is worn along the spine but the binding is intact. The pages are yellowed with age and the binding is a little cocked. The cover picture and title are bright. The book is based of the reminiscences of the author's grandmother and grant-aunts and books and magazines listed in the acknowledgments page. The books tells of her family's immigration from England to New York and then to Iowa and their lives on the Iowa prairie. Proceeds benefit environmental education and restoration.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. John Gincano (illustrator). 216 pages. Library stamps, removed card holders inside front cover and fep. Library stamps and card holder inside back cover and bep. There are no other marks or writing in the book. Some pages were not cut at the time of binding. Wear to the corners. Light shelf wear to the edges. Light wear top and bottom of spine. Spine is tight and there are no loose pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Second Printing. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 423 pages; HC in publisher's light orange cloth with decorative, pictorial title lettering in brown to cover and spine. Soundly bound copy with light to moderate sunning to spine and light rub through to cloth at corners. Cloth at spine thin and a little frayed; mild shelf soiling to cloth boards. Prior owner name penned neatly to front and rear endpages. G++.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Gincano, John (illustrator). First Edition. 216 pp. Brown cloth. Minor edge and corner wear, nick on pastedown spine title. Signed with dedication on ffep; owner has made comment, too. B&W illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by John Gincano (illustrator). First Edition. Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 423 pages.

Hardback. Condition: Worn But Complete Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Size: Oversized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Gincano, John (illustrator). No date. Circa 1930's. Light wear to boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. First Edition. Juvenile set in the early days of California.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Oblong folio. Hardcover. Pictorial paper-covered boards. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated in color. Covers edge-worn. Dust jacket heavily chipped & worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. Book.

Hardback. Condition: Good. John Gincano (illustrator). Chamisso, Adelbert von. Peter Schlemihl. Translated [from the German] by Sir John Bowring. Foreword by Willy Pogany. Philadelphia: David McKay Co., [1929]. Later edition. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-2] 3-104 [105-108: blank]. Illustrated with woodcut illustrations by John Gincano, Original dark green cloth, spine stamped in gold, with pictorial paper onlay affixed to front cover. Private bookplate on front pastedown. Inner hinges strengthened, covers a bit bowed, a good copy. (Extra postage for this large heavy volume.) #1561. $25. The woodcuts offer good examples of Weimar German expressionism. "In return for fortune, a young man sells his shadow to the Devil with disastrous consequences." -- Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1234-37. "One of the classics of German Romantic literature, first published in 1813 . Very amusing period piece." -- Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 371. "A bizarre Faustian classic, avowedly written as a mere distraction, which has seemed to the majority of its readers to harbor a sinister symbolism." -- Brian Stableford in Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-27.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Pictorial boards, grey blue taped spine & corners, pictorial paste downs, binding very good, pages clean. ; B&W Illustrations and color illustrations; Oblong Small 4to 9" - 11" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. first edition. 10 x 9 in. Cloth spine with paper boards. Color plates. Condition is GOOD ; covers foxed with some surface creases, corners worn, rear lower corner partly gone. Wear to spine head. Binding tight. Gift message inside front cover, spot on title pg, text clean. Raer inner board has some crayon marks. Chil. Stax.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Woodcuts by John Gincano (illustrator). Bright orange pictorial dust jacket with loss to foot of spine strip, and gently ruffled edges in mylar cover. Tight binding, solid green boards with orange and black illustration and sharp corners, bright gilt lettering to spine strip, previous owner's name and bookplate to front paste down, otherwise clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Dustjacket. First Edition. Juvenile set in the early days of California. Interior flaps of dj soiled, very light spotting to fore edge of book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dj. Illustrated by (dj design) John Gincano (illustrator). 1st (U.S.) edition. [moderate wear at all corners, very slight fraying to cloth at bottom corners, very light foxing to page edges; jacket worn and soiled, with a few small tears, and a very amateurish tape-repair along the top edge (including a shallow chip at top of rear panel replaced with a piece of white paper, like nobody'd ever notice THAT)]. A sequel to the author's 1929 novel "Duchess Laura, Certain Days of Her Life" (published in the U.S. as "The Duchess Intervenes"), recounting more "episodes and adventures of the Duchess of Richborough, affectionately known as Duchess Laura." Contemporary rather than historical fiction, its protagonist is, in the author's words, "not the highly coloured romanticized type familiar to sensational fiction," but rather "a real human being, in a sense a typical woman of her class and way of life in that section of the English world first called by Disraeli 'high society.'" In the observation of a reviewer of the day, the Duchess "carries off her fifty-eight years with a nonchalance and aplomb of a heroine of romance. She has, we are assured, lost none of her old vivacity and time has done nothing worse to her than mellow and make perfect an already delightful personality.".

Cloth. Condition: Good/Very Good. John Gincano (illustrator). A bright firm copy, lower part of front hinge strained but holding well, name and address on fep, pics available Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HBDJ,1933, Stated 1st EDITION. 1st Printing, Dates Match on Title & Copyright page, VG-/VG. Hardback Blue Cloth BOOK IS VERY NICE AND CLEAN inside light Fox, Wear, BUT Cvr HAS BEEN A BIT COLORED FADED AT THE SPINE AND EDGES extremities, D.J. IS WORN AT THE CORNERS AND WITH A 1 1/4" TEAR AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FRONT PANEL, SOME SCATTERED SHORT EDGE TEARS AND TINY SURFACE NICKS AND SHORT SCRATCHES & small chipping Folds of DJ. A VERY NICE COPY. . Spine Ends DJ tiny Chips Wear Creases, 268 pgs , NO ADS in Back .A Canadian Family with a seafaring background & an Unproved Claim on the Proceeds of Ship, Sea Hawk, goes West in 1850's. Story is filled with dramatic Incidents, the burning at sea of a ship transporting a Menagerie, Race between two Mississippi River Steamboats, Prairie Fire & Escapes from Wolves & Indians. Journey from Nova Scotia by way of NY, Detroit & Chicago, by Sailing Ship, Erie Railroad, Lake Boat & River Steamer, gives a graphic picture of Travel in the days when trains were more or less of a Novelty & Steamers None too Dependable. Hannah, the Oldest Daughter, who at 16 wishes that she had been a Boy so that she could have followed in the footsteps of her seafaring Ancestors, is a vivid & Delightful Personality. They buy up a claim on the Prairie, In a 3-sided Floorless Shelter Hannah & her Sister, Mary Ellen make a Home for her Father & Cousin, Jim, until with the Help of their Neighbors they Build a Log Cabin & are Ready for the Arrival of the Mother & Sisters who have been left in NY. SCARCE, especially with dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. THE WILL TO WIN and Other Stories, by Stephen W. Meader; Illustrated by John Gincano- 1936- Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York- ORIGINAL 1936 FIRST EDITION (this IS a LIGHTLY marked EX-LIBRARY copy)- BINDING is ORIGINAL light BLUE CLOTH HARDCOVER with titles in black on spine; binding and text are generally neat, interior clean and solid with some cover soiling. There is NO dust jacket. Overall, a SOLID COPY of a fairly UNCOMMON STEPHEN W. MEADER TITLE. 300 pages. BK17091980.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. HBDJ, 1942. VG/VG-, AS-IS, Binding is brownMaroon Cloth Hardback with Paste-On LABEL WITH RED DECORATION Of BOY Hardcover bk with Light Rub, Wear. Book Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: in VG- dj. 216 pages, Endpapers have slightly browned areas caused by binder's glue. Dj is browned Slightly on the spine, lightly worn at top of spine & with Edge Tears wears & Tiny Chips Extremities. D.J. i in a mylar protector, Interior nicd tight clean Light Wear Fox, 5 1/4 X 7 3/4 in. Approx ,Humorous look at the life of a preacher's son in a Presbyterian parsonage in a little lumber and mining town in the Pacific Northwest back before WWI some name changes but mostly autobiographical. Wholly Delightful Bk, Signed by Author.

Condition: Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1946]. Later Printing with [e-7-46] copyright code. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in black; [12],300pp.; frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout, pictorial endpapers printed in blue. Extremities a bit rubbed with brief exposure at spine ends and corners, spine slightly cocked, textblock a shade toned, else Very Good and sound, albeit lacking the uncommon dust jacket. Collection of sports stories for young readers featuring football, sledding, track and field, rowing, skating, and baseball.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. John Gincano (illustrator). Reprint. 300 pages. Bound in red cloth-covered boards. Twelve short stories about young boys' adventures in baseball, football, track, and other sports. The book is clean and tight; pages lightly toned; slightly rubbed and at corners. The RARE dust jacket is clean and bright, with some foxing, edgewear, and chipping at head and foot of spine. Perhaps the most scarce of Meader's adventure books for boys. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.