Maxwell Droke Editor (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Fair Dust Jacket. 78pp. Birthday cartoons & jokes.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. Phoenix Press, New York. 1940. Hardcover. Edition/ Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name on the FFFP. Book Condition: Good +; faded tint on textblock top; shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. No DJ. Blue cloth boards and spine with green lettering on the spine; green stag on the front board. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split 396 pp 8vo. This is a book of 253 poems by some of the best poets in the US who were writing for the newspapers and magazines. The poetry was supposed to be somewhat "suggestive" but by today's standards it is very tame and not ribald at all. It does possess a fine collection of classic prose that serves to teach young people the beauty of rhyme and meter. A clean very presentable copy.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Publisher's stapled illustrated wrappers, 12mo, pp. 48. FAIR condition. A vertical tear to front wrapper up from the bottom edge has been closed internally with a piece of tape. Tear continues on leaves up to about page 7. Wrappers are smudged and toned. Old tide lines, bottom edge at gutter, first few leaves. Tide lines also in fore-edge margins up to about page 12, then the tide recedes, so to speak, only to resume in smaller form about page 36, Some page tips bumped. Foxing text block top edge. A battle-scarred but endearing survivor of a cheaply made publication, creeping along towards a second century of existence. Safely stowed now in a clear new Ultra-Pro sleeve. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDIndianapolis: Maxwell Droke. Clean pages. Light creasing, pencil writing, on cover; back cover corner tip torn away. 12mo. 48pp.

Staple Bound. Condition: Very Good. Slight cover soiling. E7.

HC. Condition: good, dj frayed. 436 Includes nearly 300 humorous, topical stories arranged to fit every conceivable situation.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. No Dust Jacket. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Very good or better in good plus dust jacket. Slight rubbing/bumping, dust jacket shows rubbing/bumping, spine ends slightly torn, black line on top of spine, a few Tears on top edges, top corner of front flap clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. Clean, crisp, tight hardcover in very good condition; faint foxing at boards. Good plus DJ in mylar cover; mild rubbing and edge wear, light sunning at spine.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The Speaker's Treasury of Anecdotes. Maxwell Droke, Editor. Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, NY, No Pub Date. Edition Not Stated. Hardbound. No DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: VG. Orig owners notes on last pages of book and inside back binder match ( )marks on some text. 436 Pgs. book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher: Phoenix Press, New York, 1940. VERY GOOD+ hardcover book in VERY GOOD+ mylar-protected dust-jacket. DJ has minor wear at extremities. First Edition, First Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Phoenix Press. New York. 1940. 396 pages. First edition, first printing. Book is tight in seemingly unread condition. Blue cloth stamped in green. Original uncommon DJ is bright and attractive. Flaws limited to a small chip along reae edge; and a small closed edge tear. Slight sunning to DJ spine and minor shelf-rubbing. Nearly 400 pages and loaded with poems with a searchable index by poet, first lines and theme. About fine in a VG+ DJ.…