Patience Abbe (37 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. bright blue marbelized fabric cover with title in gilt lettering in an arc around the remainder of the title i the center of the upper portion of the cover. The authors complete the circle under the title, also in gilt lettering, the spine is similar with title and authors in gilt lettering and the publisher, the back cover is blank on the marbelized fabric. The covers and spine have evidence of water with color loss/whitening present. The back cover and spine are worst while the front cover only has a small whitened spot on the lower left near the spine.The back cover has slight warping and a small spot of paper from another book. Book plate from the former owner inside the front cover, browning around most page edges right page edges are rough cut. 29 illustrations (black & white photos) on coated pages. 8 chapters divided among countries the children lived in.The authors are all the children of the family.It is written from their point of view.The pages are clean and tight.

19th printing. Reminiscences of two children's travels, interesting period photos. 5-3/4 x 8-1/4, 204 pp, people & animals liked, b/w photos. Fair/Good, faded spine, cover crease, owener nam,e. Hardback in blue cloth boards, no jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Red titles on glossy blue covers, 204 pages with 15 pages of photos by the authors plus xii pages of introductory material. This is the 10th printing of the first edition printed in July 1936.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 14th Printing. Good (has browning on first few page & back board & has previous owners name plate).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Blue decorative boards are rubbed at corners and tips. Bookplate on fep. Uncut pages clean, text unmarked, binding is tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Libris.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Photographs (illustrator). 13th Printing. Blue cloth binding orange lettering. Sepia toned photographs and frontispiece. 204 pages. Chapter book. Int. good. Rough-cut pages. Pages yellowed. Book plate on fep. Slight shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition (Matching Dates On The Copyright And Title Pages). Illustrated. The Book Is Bound In Textured Blue Cloth With Orange Lettering On The Front And Spine. No Ownership Information Present And The Text Appears To Be Free Of Marks. The Book Has Moderate Edge Wear And Tanned Page Edges. Dust Soiling To The Upper Edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. No Jacket. General reader wear to the corners, edges, and cover. Corners have been bumped a bit. The pages show some general reader wear as well. The book is in good condition with some normal reader wear. Previous owner's name(s) inside. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Book is in very good condition. Jacket is good with tears on comers top and bottom but intact .

Hardcover. Seventh Printing. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear; B&W Illustrations; 204 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Cover Worn. Slight Foxing. Ex Library Stamps.

HARD BACK ROYAL. Condition: GOOD. JACKET: TATTERED DJ. The stated Eighth printing. very clean endpapers. black stamp to rear endpage which states "1B 1.87". deckeling to edges. pages are clean. contains 2 black illustrations to pages 34, 35, 50, 51, 82, 83, 98, 99, 130, 131, 146, 147, 170, 171. DATE PUBLISHED: 1936 EDITION: 204.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. xii, 204 pages. 21 cm. Wavy blue cloth. Frontispiece with tissue guard (b/w photos). Illustrated with 28 b/w photographs. Deckle edges. "Publisher's note : This story is printed without alterations form the children's version, except the spelling has been made orthodox" (p.vii). Three children (10-12 yo) traveling narrative in France, Austria, Germany, Russia (Moscow), England and America (Denver). A tight, crisp book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Thirteenth Printing. 204pp. Blue cloth hardcover with Orange titles. Dustjacket has notable losses at the head and foot and a four inch tear at the front top forecorner. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Q2.

Hardcover; Fifteenth Printing. Condition: Very Good+. A chatty account from three children who are mostly traveling around Europe. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 204 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No dust jacket. Ex Libris with all the usual attributes. Front hinge cracked. Erase marks and jacket flap on front end page. Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Later printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. 18TH PRINTING. OWNER'S NAME ON UPPER EDGE OF FIRST FREE PAGE. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Ed. Green cloth binding with light fading around edges and spine, ex-private library with one pocket, otherwise like new. Illustrated with numerous photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Binding is tight, pages clean, with dustjacket and slipcase ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket previous owner's bookplate.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very tight and square in publishers slipcase with same design as dust jacket. States "Gift Edition" on the front of the jacket and slip case. Former owners name on the first blank page. Small tears up to 1/4" at edges of jacket. 1/8" piece of paper missing at corners at head of spine. 3/16" triangular chip at heel of spine of jacket. Front flap including the part designed to tear off is intact. Gold jacket with photographs of the kids and white and green design of a life preserver.

hard cover. Condition: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood, hard cover book with no dust jacket, deckle & sunned pages, name on inside title page, 204 pages, 8vo.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 233p. A mint-green gilt cloth hardcover book in good condition. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Light foxing inside. Spine deeply tanned. Front and back cover lightly soiled. Otherwise clean and tight. The second book by the children of James Abbe and Polly Shorrock. Patience Abbe is the acknowledged primary author. An account of their lives as well-traveled children of celebrities. Contains black and white plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. This 191 page travel adventure begins in Paris, France. It moves to Austria, Germany, Russia, England and America. The whole of part iv deals wirh Hitler's Germany - quite separate from the Germany presented in part ii. Read more about : Potsdamerplatz, Aunt Thelma Colman, Rue de Val de Grace, Cannes, Jean Gabriel Doumergue, Herr Korff, Cliasma USSR, and Schulmappe. Text assisted by b/w photographs. The `zinger' in this entire tale is that the travellers, the authors, are children ten and under. Beware: there are politics afoot. B/W photographs accompany text - the best is the Hitler salute on page 98-a. Cond : Boards are blue with orange lettering. End-papers are white. FFEP has been removed. Something blacked-out on the following page. Binding tight, volume square. Clean, minimal wear. Excellent reading copy. Quote (p. 122) : " Then we went to church and everybody was singing and Monsieur le Cure said the prayers, then everyone went out of the church except the people who were looking at the graves. Then Johnny ._.-._. .' Size: Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 219 pages. Black/white photos. Spine faded. A firm, straight book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Photographs (illustrator). Precocious children in Hollywood report on their interactions with Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, fellow children Shirley Temple and Elizabeth Taylor, and a bevy of others. Some of the MANY Illustrations: We were always the first at meal-time in the dining-room at Hearst Castle, as you can see . . . . Patience, Richard and Johnny Abbe . . . . The cross marks Harriet Johnson . Jimmie Grant, a valiant boy . Marianne, a girl who loves children . We liked broadcasting for Sears, Roebuck with Admiral Byrd and Helen Gleason . I, Patience, enjoyed sitting on Robert Taylor's lap . The Abbe children with the Ballet Russe . Impresario Behymer and Alexandra Danilova . Irina Baronova and Col. W. de Basil . Philip MacMahon, Cora Sue Collins, Jackie Cooper, Mayor Shaw, Edith Fellowes, George Ernst, Billy Lee, Richard. Patience, Johnny . Johnny, Patience, Billy Lee, Edith Fellowes, Richard, Philip MacMahon, George Ernst, Cora Sue Collins . With the Mexican Players at Padua Hills . . . .The gang that went sixty miles to Richard's Birthday Party at Padua Hills . The Chaplin boys and Fay Gillis Wells with us-and Snooks, who came from Ethiopia . Eddie Cantor with the Abbes . The Chaplin boys, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother . After we played on Tommy and Charlie's Tarzan tree we went to see Tarzan in the movies . Director W. S. Van Dyke, of M-G-M, with the Abbe trio . Abbe children and Harry Lachman . Slight bumping to top and bottom of spine. All orders shipped protected in a box. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. W. S. VON DYKE, ADMIRAL BYRD, CLARK GABLE, HAL ROACH, BING CROSBY, ALFAALFA, SHIRLEY TEMPLE, MANY MORE. BOOK, SPINE EDGES FADED, SLIGHTLY BUMPPED CORNERS, COVER SLIGTHLY SPOTTED. BW PHOTO ILL.

Hardcover. 8vo. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. In green cloth boards with gold titles. Boards slightly discolored around margins from age. Small split in cloth at upper front corner. Front hinge cracked at bottom. 233p. Deckled pages unmarked. Jacket included, protected in brodart, in good condition. Several chips are taken from edges and folds, margins moderately rubbed and creased. A removed sticker has eroded a small rectangle of spine panel.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Stated "Second Printing (before publication)" (earlier date than the first printing), very good in a very good dust jacket. The green cloth has a couple of small spots, and the spine is a touch faded. Gilt on spine and front board is still fairly bright. Small bookplate in upper left corner of front pastedown (behind jacket flap). The jacket has slight loss at the edges of the rear panel and the spine ends. $2.00 price is present on front flap; no names or other writing in the book.