Lanier Henry W Editor (7 results)

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. ISBN: 0517201550, Hardback, 2nd printing of this edition, Near Fine in a Near Fine, mylar protected DJ; a nice, tight copy with no names or internal markings, large book with more than 600 black-and-white photographs, 4to., ~ 1300 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dust jacket is intact, and in good condition. Book itself is pristine and like new. Such a GREAT SET of 10 books. Perhaps you need this volume to complete your set. Right after the photographic image has been invented. So soon and these photographs are INCREDIBLE. Let's look at these historic photos and remind ourselves of the horrors of war and never go there again. (BR) Box 96. …

cloth-backed boards. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. 212 pages. Edited by Henry W. Lanier. Limited to 500 copies, each with a presentee's name in ink. Article by Graham on literary prizes, Romans a Clef by Waldbridge and sections on the best books of 1928. Covers worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original publisher's striped blue boards backed with blue cloth. Original blue dust wrapper included. Gilt lettering on spine of the book. 5" x 7 1/2." 211 pages, complete. Pages and covers of the book are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Slight wear to the top and bottom edges of the book. Dust wrapper is clean and intact overall but is browned on the front panel and spine. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust wrapper. A collection of essays and lists pertaining to the publishing industry, advertising and the business side of books, and the book world as a whole. Excerpt from the front flap: "Of extreme interest and usefulness to the reading public no less than to authors, is the first annual, selected and arranged by Mr. Lanier. Information which might only be obtained piece-meal from the forgotten files of literary and publisher's journals is here presented in company with new and unpublished material. Literary agents, advertising experts, and publishers have combined their efforts to produce a book which is simply written, immediately useful, and possesses a permanent value." The following are the essays: "The Business Side of Writing" by Jean Wick, "The Book Clubs and Their 1928 Selections," "Famous Literary Prizes and Their Winners" by Bessie Graham, "Best Selling Books in 1928," "Fifty Beautiful Books," "A Show of Book Illustrations," "Forty Notable American Books of 1927," "Romans a Clef: Real People Behind Fiction Characters" by Earle F. Walbridge, "The Vexed Question of Advertising: The Charge of the Slight Brigade" by Charles H. Denhard, "The Vexed Question of Advertising: Advertising a Given Book" by Richard L. Simon, "A B C of Copyright," and "Preparing Manuscript and Proof-Reading.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dust jacket is intact and in very good condition. Book itself is pristine and like new. Such a GREAT SET of 10 books. Perhaps you need this volume to complete your set. Right after the photographic image has been invented. So soon and these photographs are INCREDIBLE. Let's look at these historic photos and remind ourselves of the horrors of war and never go there again. (BR) Box 96.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dust jacket is intact and in very good condition. Book itself is pristine and like new. Such a GREAT SET of 10 books. Perhaps you need this volume to complete your set. Right after the photographic image has been invented. So soon and these photographs are INCREDIBLE. Let's look at these historic photos and remind ourselves of the horrors of war and never go there again. (BR) Box 96.…

Condition: Good. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers. 8vo. 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches. Numbered 289 to 432, plus 50 pages of introductory material and ads at both the front and rear. Includes work by Robert W. Chambers, Booth Tarkington, Lord Dunsany, and others. Some creasing and chipping on spine; top three inches of front cover loose, but still attached. All pages present. Very Good overall.…