Lawrence E Spivak (100 results)

Language: English
Published by The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: vintage, Pine Mountain Club, CA, U.S.A.vintage
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included.
Language: English
Published by Blakiston Company, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Marie Hartman, Branch, MI, U.S.A.Marie Hartman
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Thus. Good green hardcover. 1944 only date shown, assumed first thus. Selection of articles, stories and poems published in THE AMERICAN MERCURY during the past twenty years. Unmarked, Edgewear to covers, bumped corners, small tears top spine. Fiction. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Size: 8vo - over…7¾" - 9¾" Tall.
Language: English
Published by The Blakiston Company, PA 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Hellertown Books, Hellertown, PA, U.S.A.Hellertown Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. some edgewear and chipping to dust jacket; binding tight, content clean, no markings.
Published by The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Decadent Anchorite Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Decadent Anchorite Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Wear to cover, but otherwise undamaged. This would make a good reading copy.
Published by Blakiston
- Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Dallas
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Published by Blakiston Co.
- Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Atlanta
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Published by The Blakiston company 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.Library House Internet Sales
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. a selection of distinguished articles, stories Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Foxing is present on one or more pages. Binding is moderately loose. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match… the covers of the actual item. Book.
Published by The Blakiston company 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.Library House Internet Sales
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. a selection of distinguished articles, stories Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is very loose. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and… may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.
More imagesPublished by Blakiston Company, Philadelphia 1944
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Matthew's Books, Chattanooga, TN, U.S.A.Matthew's Books
Contact seller5-star sellerhardcover. first edition. 8vo. 378pp. see pictures for contents. #05017. Very Good: Book VG mild shelf wear and scuffs to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight.
More imagesPublished by Blakiston 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Molly's Brook Books, Conway, MA, U.S.A.Molly's Brook Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Book Club Edition, with a card from Literary Guild of America laid in. Corners lightly bumped, and a touch of fraying at base of spine. A spot or two of soiling to boards. Pages show no writing, and only a touch of toning. Dust jacket showing rubbing and… edgewear, particularly to head and heel of spine. Please note this is a wartime edition, with paper that tends to get a bit fragile with age. As the note on the dust jacket explains: "This book has not been condensed. Its bulk is less because of government paper quota regulations restricting all publishers.".

Published by Philadelphia: Blakiston
- Hardcover
Seller: Auldfarran Books, IOBA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.Auldfarran Books, IOBA
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1944. 378pp. green cloth 8vo: Good+/no dj. A great anthology of articles from H. L. Mencken's "American Mercury" by celebrated writers ranging from Sinclair Lewis to Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Carl Sandburg, Zora Neale Hurston, Eugene O'Neill, Vachel Lindsay, William… Saroyan and even Mencken (1880-1956) himself (and many, many other famous literary figures). American journalist and publisher Lawrence Spivak (1900-94) was publisher of The American Mercury but is best known for his later association with NBC's "Meet the Press." Charles Angoff (1902-79), a Mencken protege, was managing editor of The American Mercury.
More imagesPublished by Phila.: Blakiston 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.Cragsmoor Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Green cl., gilt lettering on backstr. Edges and coerners sl. rubbed. 378pp., double columns.
More imagesPublished by Phila.: Blakiston 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.Cragsmoor Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Green cl., gilt lettering on backstr., dulled, sm. dent to backstr. below title. ring mark front corner. Owner sticker ffep. 378pp., double columns, sl. toned.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by The Blakiston Company 1944
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: L&L's Book Nook, Centralia, WA, U.S.A.L&L's Book Nook
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. A Selection of Distinguished Articles, Stories and Poems Published in The American Mercury During the Past Twenty Years Faults: Numerous small tears to dust jacket (see pictures), dust jacket clipped,pages toned due to age. Otherwise, square spine, clean pages…, strong binding. 1924-1944 Work from William Saroyan, H. L. Mencken, Ben Hecht, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, , Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, Eugene O'Neill, and so much more.
More imagesPublished by Phila.: Blakiston 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.Cragsmoor Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Green cl., gilt lettering on backstr., dulled. Bump to top front corner. 378pp., double columns, sl. toned.
Published by Philadelphia, PA: Blakeston Co, 1944 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Pepper's Old Books, Hanson, KY, U.S.A.Pepper's Old Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. A Selection of distinguished articles, stories & poems Published in the American Murcury during the past 20 years.
Published by The Blakiston company 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.Library House Internet Sales
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.
Published by The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Gyre & Gimble, Holden, ME, U.S.A.Gyre & Gimble
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Green buckram w/dull gilt lettering. All edges rubbed. Text clean and nice, no marks, outside edges foxed. "A Selection of distinguished articles, stories and poems published in The American Mercury during the past twenty years".
Published by The Blakiston Company 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Montclair Book Center, Montclair, NJ, U.S.A.Montclair Book Center
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: USED Fair. No Jacket. No dust jacket, top of spine is damaged, corners are worn.
Language: English
Published by The Blakiston Co. 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.Callaghan Books South
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). (Book Club) Slightly smaller book, dark green boards, gilt lettering near fine on spine, 378 lightly browned supple pages. Articles and literary works: William Saroyan, H.L. Mencken, Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, James M. C…ain, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Carl Sandburg and others. DJ front and spine dark yellow, black and green, contents with author's name and work on back. DJ is badly torn on back, slight wear and tear elsewhere. Poor DJ/Very Good book.
Published by Blakiston Co. 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Foggypaws, Sonoma, CA, U.S.A.Foggypaws
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hardcover. Condition: Good. 1944 hardcover in good condition. Name on inside cover. All inside pages are in great shape. Minor shelf wear to the green spine and cover. No dust jacket. 378 pages.

Published by Blakiston Company, Philadelphia 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Henry E. Lehrich, Bethesda, MD, U.S.A.Henry E. Lehrich
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Hard Cover CLOTH. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 378 pages; pages clean and white. d/j has minor edgewear, very few chips ; no writing no tearing. see picture on left. .nice clean book.
Published by Blue Ribbon Books
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Dallas
Contact seller5-star sellerUnknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Published by The American Mercury , Inc. 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: POQUETTE'S BOOKS, DEWITT, MI, U.S.A.POQUETTE'S BOOKS
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Hardcover. Condition: Good.
Published by Blue Ribbon Books
- Hardcover
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.Book Alley
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Moderate shelf wear; dust jacket is edge worn, with chipping and small edge tears to panels and spine ends; in brodart. Rubbing to boards and spine cloth. A good copy. Pasadena's premier independent new and used bookstore. Literary anthology.

- Hardcover
Seller: WVStore, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.WVStore
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Darkening on edge of book block and very slight chipping on top edge of cover. A selection of articles, stories and poems published in The American Mercury between 1924 and 1944. The American Mercury was an American magazine published from 1924 to 1981. It was founded as the brainchild… of H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan. The magazine featured writing by some of the most important writers in the United States through the 1920s and 1930s. The magazine went out of print in 1981, having spent the last 25 years of its existence in decline and controversy.
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.Visible Voice Books
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Condition: Acceptable. Blakiston Company Philadelphia, PA 1944.
Published by Blakiston Company
Seller: Books Revisited, Saint Cloud, MN, U.S.A.Books Revisited
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Condition: Very Good.
Published by The Blakiston Co 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition.
Published by The American Mercury 1944
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rare Reads, Athens, GA, U.S.A.Rare Reads
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Includes "The Kidnapped Pekinese" by Agatha Christie. Pages tanning, with a few rips and dog-ears. Good + condition.