Kidd Albert (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Updike, John (jacket design); Kidd, Chip (jacket design); Victoria & Albert Museum (jacket image) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine condition blue cloth boards, silver front cover lettering and decoration, with silver and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by John Updike; Author Dedication and A Note About the Author. "To Carter Billings, the hero of John Updike's title story, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: "A miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig, each reed of thatch in the cottage roofs, each tiny daisy trembling in the grass." All twenty-two of the stories in this collection - John Updike's eleventh, and his first in seven years - in various ways partake of this glow, as life beyond middle age is explored and found to have its own particular wonders, from omniscient golf caddles to prescient sexual rumors, from the deaths of mothers and brothers-in-law to the births of grandchildren. As death approaches, life takes on, for some of these aging heroes, a translucence, a magical fragility; vivid memory and casual misperception lend the mundane an antic texture, and the backward view, lengthening, acquires a certain grandeur. Travel, whether to England or Ireland, Italy or the isles of Greece, heightens perceptions and tensions. As is usual in Mr. Updike's fiction, spouses quarrel, lovers part, children are brave, and houses with their decor have the presence of personalities. His is a world where innocence stubbornly persists, and fresh beginnings almost outnumber losses." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, no pagination, illustrated, pictorial stapled card covers. de Bernham died in 1253. He was Chamberlain of King Alexander II of Scotland and subsequently Bishop of St. Andrews.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. No. 1-4, Winter to Autumn, 1950. HC, Orig. Red cloth and gilt stamping to spine. B/W photography, ads, illustrations and collected writings from celebrated authors. 4to. 4 page Index to all 4 quarters + 428pp. Fine, Clean, with no markings or writings, never read. Mint Interior with near fine exterior; spine is sunned. Includes stories, poems and other writings by authors such as Ellis Arnall, Herbet Gambrell, Elizabeth Bartlett, J. Frank Dobie, Henry Nash Smith, Aubrey Burns, Edith Hart Mason, Aruthur Marvin Shaw, J. S. Moodey, C.P. Lee, Albert Guerard, James L. Summers, Willard Marsh, Harry Kidd, Jr., W.M. Frohock, Charles H. Thompson, John W. Wilson, Frank Hibben, Fred Gipson, Hart Stilwell, Roland F. Dickey, Wayne Gard, Jesse Stuart and many more along with contributing points of views, book reviews, etc. Collectible Rare. Hard to find in such nice, clean condition. --BR Box 152.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. No. 1-4, Winter to Autumn, 1950. HC, Orig. Red cloth and gilt stamping to spine. B/W photography, ads, illustrations and collected writings from celebrated authors. 4to. 4 page Index to all 4 quarters + 429pp. Fine, Clean, with no markings or writings, never read. Mint Interior with near fine exterior; spine is sunned. Includes stories, poems and other writings by Donald Day, Albert Guerard, Alberta Wilson Constant, John T. Flanagan, Henry Miller, Fannie Cook, John E. Rosserm Arthur Marvin Shaw, Charles Ramsdell, Victor White, George Freedley, Curtis Martin, Geoffrey Johnson, Harry Kidd, Jr., J.S. Moodey, Tristam Coffin, John William Rogers, Roland English Hartley, T.M. Pearce, Erna Ferguson, O'Kane Foster, John L. Sinclair and many more. Hard to find in such nice condition. RARE. Collectible. BR Box 152.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Clarke, W.W.; Briggs, Austin Eugene; Kidd, Betty Jane (illustrator). First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Cover photo of William's Island in the Tennessee River; The Destiny of the Democratic Party Hinges Largely Upon the Two-Thirds Rule; Pay-As-You-Go in Building Good Roads - Tennessee Constructs its Highways with Funds from Current Revenues - nice photo-illustrated article; The Rise of Mustapha Kemal Pasha; Letter to the Folks - a letter franked by Abraham Lincoln in 1934; What's Wrong with the Press? - an newspaperman answers this perennial question (part 1); The Changing Fashions of Being Presented at Court; Henry Ford's Page - how to maintain a logical prosperit; Editorials - Mr. Mellon and the Tarriff Manifesto, the McFadden Banking Bill, The Education of Mr. Vare; Forces That Are Reshaping Mexico - a study of those who ruled the country before the revolution and those who are ruling it now; The Little Trades of Paris Streets - the soul of an ancient city; The Lights of Other Days - Candles and Candlesticks - photo-illustrated article; Now Just Who IS Queer - The Chinese or Ourselves?; A Forest Tragedy - waste leaves the lumbering towns of Tioga County, PA Destitute; I Read in the Papers - In memory of Billy the Kid, Petroleum in Ancient Times, Franklin Expedition Relics Found; Nice photos inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. Bacon, Irving R. (cover); Van Der Heyden, Gerald; Kidd, Betty Jane (illustrator). First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Fun photos of children inside front cover; Debt - Our Biggest National Industry/Money - Our Most Costly Commodity - Can the Price of Money Be Decreased?; The Backstage Story of the Marion Talley Drama - article with photo; Morality That Was First Military - army commanders long ago discovered principles now claimed by pacifists; Where the People of the British Isles Came From; Books That Started the Bells Ringing; Henry Ford's Page - Businessmen are leaders of social movements; Editorials - the McNary-Haugen Bill is vetoed, Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver advocates trial marriage, Madame Schumann-Heink denies endorsing a cigarette (being aimed at women); Skiing in the Bavarian Alps; Paid - A Billion Dollars for Beauty - Sleuths of Science Still on the Trail of Elixir of Youth; Benjamin Franklin as an Abolitionist - fascinating article; Intimate Glimpses of Elbert Hubbard - photo-illustrated article; Chats with Office Callers; I Read in the Papers; News Bits; Nice dog/puppy photos inside back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Middle page loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Bonus: Blank 8.5" x 5.5" subscription renewal form laid-in.