Kenneth Roberts from Mystery Cove Book Shop (24 results)

paperback. Fine mass market paperback, Fawcett Crest t985, 1st printing December 1966. Basis for the 1952 20th Century Fox directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Dale Robertson & Anne Francis.

Seller Inventory # 165654

paperback. Fine mass market paperback. Fawcett Premier P440, 1st printing. Cover price $1.25. A novel of the Revolutionary War originally published in 1933.

Seller Inventory # 165650

hardcover. Fine mass market paperback. Fawcett Premier P564, 1st printing. Cover price $1.25. Basis for the 1940 King Vidor film starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Young.

Seller Inventory # 165648

paperback. Fine mass market paperback, Fawcett Crest t1057, 1st printing September 1967.

Seller Inventory # 165652

paperback. Fine mass market paperback. Fawcett Premier P458, 1st printing. Cover price $1.25. The author's first historical novel is set during the Revolutionary War.

Seller Inventory # 165646

paperback. As new mass market paperback. Fawcett Crest m1041, 1st printing. Cover price is 95 cents. Nautical adventure novel set during the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) spent 12 weeks in the number one slott of the NY Times Best Sellers list. Basis for Jean Negulesco's 1952 film starring Dale Robertson & Anne Francis.

Seller Inventory # 165656

hardcover. Later printing. VG+ in a near VG+ Dust Jacket with light wear at spine extremities. Moreau's journal, discoverd while Roberts was working on his novel LYDIA BAILEY, proved so interesting that he and wife Anna M. Roberts translated and published it shortly after the publication of the novel. Color frontispiece by James Bingham.

Seller Inventory # 138550

paperback. Fine mass market paperback. Fawcett Premier Q524, 1st printing. Cover price $1.50. Novel explores the loyalist cause during the Revolution. Originally published in 1940.

Seller Inventory # 165644

hardcover. First Edition. Pages tanning, foxing to edges; else a VG or better copy in a Dust Jacket missing the spine panel (flaps and front & rear panels complete except for minor wear at corners). A delightful satire of antiques collecting and collectors. Quite scarce.

Seller Inventory # 130840

hardcover. First Edition. A VG copy (no Dust Jacket) in which the front hinge is broken for 3/4 of its length. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front endpaper: "Inscribed for Clarence Wheelwright, who knows we State of Mainers aint as gloomy as we look. With the affectionate regard of his friend Kenneth Roberts. Christmas, 1937." In addition, Roberts' personal bookplate is pasted to the front endpaper.

Seller Inventory # 139362

hardcover. Reprint. Fine in a VG, dust jacket with some tiny chips and a few closed tears. Jacket, pictorial endpapers and color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. A profile of Maine by the author of NORTHWEST PASSAGE. Originally published in 1938 by Little-Brown.

Seller Inventory # 160870

hardcover. First Edition. One of 1050 numbered copies (#57) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Near fine in a good slipcase. Includes an original typed manuscript page with the author's penciled corrections.

Seller Inventory # 127572

hardcover. First Edition. An exceptionally fine, crisp copy in a very fine Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Paul Galdone.

Seller Inventory # 146798

hardcover. First Edition. Fine in a VG+, price-clipped Dust Jacket with shallow wear to spine extremities. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR and Henry Gross on the title page: "Inscribed for Mott Brown with best wishes, Kenneth Roberts and Henry Gross." First edition stated. Illustrated.

Seller Inventory # 154804

hardcover. First Edition. One of 1050 numbered copies (#1033) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in a good slipcase. Includes an original manuscript page, in this case completely in pencil, with the author's corrections. Additionally, Roberts has inscribed this copy on the title page in 1950.

Seller Inventory # 160872

hardcover. Second Edition. A VG+ bright and attractive copy in a solid VG Dust Jacket with some light soiling & foxing and minor wear to spine extremities. Jacket is unclipped. Comic foray into the world of antiques collecting. Illustrations by Tarkington. Extremely uncommon in dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 135952

paperback. Two pages, on the author's Kennebunk Beach letterhead dated June 19th, [1938] to Paul Dwight Moody, President of Middlebury College. Near fine with some light browning and faint creases from having been folded. In which Roberts thanks "President Moody" for "a most enjoyable visit and a highly appreciated honor." He also mentions that "the Dunsany book ought to be along in a day or two." Roberts received an honoray degree from Middlebury in 1938.

Seller Inventory # 152676

hardcover. First Edition. Fine in a near fine Dust Jacket with a quarter inch closed tear at front flap fold. First edition (stated), 1st printing. A very attractive copy. Novel of the War of 1812. Basis for the seldom seen 1940 Hal Roach film directed by Richard Wallace and starring Victor Mature, Louise Platt and Leo Carrillo.

Seller Inventory # 159664

hardcover. First Edition. Two volumes, near fine (issued without Dust Jackets), missing the slipcase. Number 544 of 1050 copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE AUTHOR. The American Revolution from the Loyalist point of view.

Seller Inventory # 129282

hardcover. First Edition. VG+ copy in a VG+, price-clipped Dust Jacket that is from a slightly later printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page: "With the Best Wishes of Kenneth Roberts, Kennebunkport , Me., August 19, 1931." Previous owner has also penned his name nearby. First edition stated. Uncommon signed first edition. Basis for the 1952 20th Century Fox directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Dale Robertson & Anne Francis.

Seller Inventory # 129936

paperback. Two pages, on one folded sheet of plain stationery dated September 26th, 1935 to Paul Dwight Moody, President of Middlebury College. Near fine with some light browning and a faint crease caused by an additional fold. In which Roberts declaims having been accused, "even by my own countrymen, of harboring a bitter hatred of Oxford." and informs Moody that his support "is far more soothing than any mixture in Mrs. Winslow's syrup-kettle." He continues that he has been "poring over maps of your section of the country, to say nothing of wearing out the roads, in an attempt to make sure of some of the activities of the late Major Robert Rogers." This was two years before the publication of NORTHWEST PASSAGE. Roberts received an honoray degree from Middlebury in 1938.

Seller Inventory # 152674

hardcover. First Edition. Just a hint of wear at the spine extremities, else a fine, crisp copy in a VG+ Dust Jacket with some very light soiling and missing some tiny nicks at spine extremities. No signature, bookplate or marks of any kind and the $2.50 price remains on the jacket flap. First printing jacket mentioning only ARUNDEL as a previous book. Colorful and striking dust jacket illustration by N. C. Wyeth. Basis for the 1952 20th Century Fox directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Dale Robertson & Anne Francis.

Seller Inventory # 136082

hardcover. Second Edition. Foxing to edges, pages with some tanning and endpaper foxing; else a VG+ bright and attractive copy in a solid VG Dust Jacket with some light soiling & foxing. Jacket is unclipped and is missing only one tiny, shallow chip to rear panel (1/8" x 1/8"). SIGNED BY THE THREE AUTHORS on the front endpaper. Comic foray into the world of antiques collecting. Illustrations by Tarkington. Extremely uncommon in dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 132828

hardcover. First Edition. One of 1000 numbered copies (#980) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Two volumes, fine in VG Dust Jackets a bit browned on the spines in the publisher's good pictorial slipcase with wear along edges and split along one edge. Volume 2, the appendix, contains ancillary material, none of which was available in the regular trade edition. Roberts's most celebrated historical novel of the American Colonial period, the basis for a memorable film by MGM in 1940.

Seller Inventory # 129938