Roland Ryder Smith (15 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Includes work by Richard Eberhart; Richard Hugo, William Stafford, et al. Pale grey wraps (some staining and wear; some browning to text; a page creased). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First edition. ISBN Trade Paperback, with dustjacket. Good condition book, with some browning to edges of interior pages, heavy rubs to cover edges, minimal pagewear, in a Good Condition dustjacket with multiple chips, rubs and creases to edges, some browning to jacket spine and edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy, except for previous owner's address stamp on inside front endpaper, initials written on corner of inside front cover. No statement of later printing on copyright page.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. 1953. No Edition Remarks. 70 pages. White dust jacket over blue paper cover with a colour illustrated frontis. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket with minor edge wear and visible foxing and sunning. Heavier sunning to spine and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition. Scarce booklet of poetry by Roland Ryder-Smith, a poet of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. The author has written on the inside of the front wrapper - 'Kitty Atchison - with all good wishes, Roland R-S'. 8pp, ten poems. Printed on the ffep - 'For Kitty Achison [?] with Kind Regards - Roland R_S'. Order slip laid-in. Bright, clean and unmarked. Sound binding. Clean wrappers excepting a very small, faint mark at 3-oclock -see scan]. Weight, 190g. Size: 5.5" by 8.75". Dedicated Subject's Inscription & Signature. Book.

Stapled Card Wrappers. Condition: VG, or Better. Presumed First Edition. Scarce booklet of poetry by Roland Ryder-Smith, a poet of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. No publication data or date is shown. The author has written on the inside of the front wrapper - 'Kitty - - with all good wishes, Roland R-S'. 8pp, ten poems. Printed on the front wrapper is 'Lantern Prize'. Seems unrecorded. Mostly clean and unmarked, except a tiny stain to the top corner. Slightly age-yellowed. Sound binding. Scan available. Weight, 27g. Size: 6" by 8.75". Dedicated Subject's Inscription & Signature. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Nice copy of this early issue of this long-running little magazine from the Pacific Northwest; includes an early poem by Harold Norse, plus writing by John Gould Fletcher, et al. Unmarked copy, light rubbing to covers. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 16 pages. Howard Griffin / Irma Wassall / Helmer O Oleson / John Hart / John Gross / A Wilber Stevens / Roland Ryder-Smith / Geoffrey Wagner / F C Golffing / Clarence Alva Powell / Joachim M Ardanuy / Conrad Pendleton / Tom Dryce. (U.P.).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 44pp, stapled wrappers. Nice copy of the first issue of this long-running little magazine from the Pacific Northwest; includes an excerpt from "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare" by Henry Miller, plus writing by Wendell Anderson and others. Unmarked copy with minor wear. Not Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 47pp. Stapled wrappers rubbed with bump at the crown and wear to the foredge, near fine. Literary anthology with contributions from Harold Norse, August Katau, Jay Reese, Aura Lee Barclay, Ingeborg Kayko, John T. Westbrook, Byron Vazakas, Scott Greer, John Gould Fletcher, Hubert Creekmore, Glenna Hallard Christopherson, Glen A. Harris, D.H. Piper, Roland Ryder-Smith, and Alex Austin.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Nicolson, W.C. (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. 18 [ads], 189-250 pages. Features: On the Edge of the World (part 1) - adventures of a Wolverhampton office worker who travels to Tierra del Fuego to hunt and pirate furs; The Australian Stockman - photo-illustrated article; Picturesque Portugal - photo-illustrated article; Buster Brown's Brain-Wave - delightful yarn of the old sailing-ship days involving the crew of the 'Pride of London'; The Baker and the Bears - photo-illustrated article of the bears which feed from the cooks at Stevens' Gulch Road Camp on Mount Rainier in Washington state; The "Rockologist" - photo-illustrated article on "Chuckawalla Slim", otherwise known as Edwin H. Vose; Wardens of the Marches - deals with the wild Afghan border where blood feuds last generations; Ju-Ju C.I.D. - a curious story from West Africa; The Big Eel - fish-spearing at night near Mauritius; Abdul the Impeccable - getting even with a young rogue in northern India; "Lucky Tremaine" - An R.C.M.P. member is promoted due to a fluke of fortune; Great photo shows men of Hallaton and Medbury competing to get mini-beer barrel over the brook between the villages; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Inns, Kenneth; Cleaver (?); Holloway (?); Brock; Osmond, Edward (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 129-192 plus 16 pages of advertisements. Features: The Grey Car Mystery - a Winnipeg murder case is solved - with photos of Sheriff Delos Blanchard, Harry Heipel, J.A. Kaesar (the victim), Inspector M.F. Anthony, and Chief George Smith; Premonition - an odd recollection by ship's engineer R.A. Jordan, R.N.R.; Photo of mystery stone coffin in the village of Turville; The Foundling - the tale of a temporarily adopted baboon in Nigeria; The Gold-Seekers - reprint of a Honduran adventure published in 1915 involving Charles Row, Dr. John F. Howard, Bert Dare, Edward J. Hoyt and W.W. Palmer; White Man's Magic - a Scots tugboat skipper uses his intelligence to restore order to a colony of Negroes in Columbia who were whipped to a frenzy by a self-appointed medicine-man; Photos of aftermath of cyclone which struck Townsville, Queensland, Australia in March, 1946; On the Razmak Road - a curious happening on the northwest frontier of India; Two Cot Cases - a Royal Navy rescue story involving the H.M.S. Keppel; Patrolling the Gulf of Carpentaria; Indian Pole-Trick; Vast Pools of Silver Salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska - article with photos; Hide and Seek - a tale from the coast of Dalmatia in the Adriatic where motor-gunboats of the Royal Navy harried German supply schooners; Nice Mars chocolate bar ad inside back cover. Colour ad for Wavy Navy tobacco on back cover. Unmarked with average wear. Modest sticker removal blemish to front cover. Binding tight. A sound vintage copy.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days 152.