Nesbit Wilbur, Signed (9 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. One of "The Clubman Edition" limited to 300 copies, this being number 12, inscribed by the author to John Angus Morrison. "Who brings to life the memories held in the handful of dust from the paths of long ago. With the abiding friendship of Wilbur Nesbit." A near fine hardcover copy. Nesbit is best known for his poetry for the Volland Jolly Kid Book series and for his poetry on Freemasonry. A beautiful copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: very good. no jacket. First edition, Limited Edition. NOT an ex library book. The Clubman edition limited to 300 copies. This is #238 and is signed by the author on the limited edition page. Book with dark green cloth spine, print in gold. Boards have brown marble type pattern. 258 pages plus Index of First Lines. Rough cut edges. Signed by author.

hardcover. Condition: Very good. first edition. Octavo, green cloth covers, 311 pages. White titling on spine has flake away but titling on top cover is in very good condition. Light wear at head and foot of spine. Some dampstaining in bottom margin in middle portion of book--does not affect text. Humorous novel with the term "emigger" being "a local corruption of the old French emigre." Inscribed by the author to Walter J. Kohler, one-time governor of Wisconsin, and son of the founder of the Kohler Company in Wisconsin. Nesbit published several books, including poetry. He is most known for the poem "Your Flag, My Flag", and wrote a column for the Chicago Tribune called "A Line O' Type or Two." 092717C.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fine. Limited and Numbered, Signed 1st Edition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on limitation page -" To Will H. Hays, Esq., with every good wish and all friendly thoughts Yours Wilbur Nesbit". The Clubman Edition, #78 of 300 copies printed. Foreword by George Ade. Fine, No Jacket, As Issued. Will Hays was most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire, inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts, and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. When the Catholic Church formed its Legion of Decency and threatened nationwide boycotts of movies, Hays installed a more formal production code, called the Hays Code( later simply "The Code"), which became the virtual law of Hollywood until the 1960s. Nesbit is best known for his poetry for the Volland Jolly Kid Book series and for his poetry on Freemasonry. A lovely Association Copy, and SCARCE in such Fine condition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Young, Ellsworth (illustrator). Poetry. "Subscription Edition". Green cloth covers very nice spine ends bumped spine faded gilt cover titles bright light edge wear. Interior clean and tight top edge gilt. Inscribed to fellow author Karl Edwin Harriman and signed by the author on the first blank. Scarce original printing. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. 163 pages. No dust jacket. Original publisher's brown cloth boards lettered gilt on spine and on front cover with gilt lining at edges. Black and white illustrated frontispiece with slightly torn tissue cover. Some full page B/w illus. Signed presentation from the author on front endpaper: 'with the seasons greetings, Wilbur D Nesbit.' Some of Nesbit's poems turn up in Elledge's anthology 'Masquerade. Queer poetry in America to the end of World War II.' Very good indeed. Signedes.

hardcover. Condition: good. Clare Briggs (illustrator). First. Numerous black & white illustrations, spot coloring on hands and faces, rubricated title, slim 4to, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, edges rubbed, slight soiling on covers. Chicago: Volland, (1914). First Edition. A very good(-) copy, internally clean. Inscribed by the author and signed with a small illustration of Santa Claus by the artist on the fly-leaf.

soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Deluxe Limited Edition. 16mo; 61, 55 pages ; full green suede leather with the metallic inlay of the Society's medallion, green satin front pastedown, marbled endpapers; fragile ooze leather worn, edgeworn, covers on vol. 1 detached. Signed by Wilbur Nesbit. This is copy no. 57 [ of a reported only 100 Deluxe, signed sets, known as The Hoosier Set ]. After the first edition by Bobbs-Merrill, in 1911, this was issued as volumes nos. 11 & 12 of the set of 12 volumes, that had been issued in red cloth, for members of the Indiana Society of Chicago, with other titles by Gene Stratton-Porter, George Ade, John T. McCutcheon and others. This is the selection of brief biographies of notable Hoosiers. Note: Has anyone noticed that Nesbit mis-spelled Kenesaw Mountain Landis' name?

hardcover. Condition: very good. Verses by Wilbur Nesbit and many cartoon-like illustrations by Clare Briggs, printed with spot color. Oblong folio, cloth backed pictorial boards, edgewear and cover soil with a few small repairs; some pages a bit chipped in margins. Chicago: Volland (1913). Inscribed on the fly-leaf "Skin-nay and Briggs" with a 4 inch drawing by Briggs with the lines"Ain't Mad at Nobody". This is Briggs's first book and a rare and early Volland title. Text and illustration deal with the mis-adventures of typical middle-America children - Skinnay and his friends.