Selma Robinson (52 results)

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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Reading copy. All pages at rear with; Little Golden Book; 8vo 8" - 9" tall Fair paper dolls have been torn out. (B378) .

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Reprint. Lacks jacket. Spine faded. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1931 Hard Cover. 64 pp. Woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Robinson's first book. She was also a contributing editor of McCall's magazine, and a frequent contributor of short stories and articles to The New Yorker, The Saturday Review of Literature, and Harper's.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardcover First Edition with dust jacket with chips along the top, in protective plastic sleeve. Rockwell Kent (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall (tall thin). A very good- copy in good+ dust jacket with most of jacket spine perished (few chips present); few small nicks, rubbing and browning to jacket (chiefly at foredges); slight internal browning to edges and endpapers. 64 pages. Later issue (lacks publisher's seal on title page verso; 'Third Edition' and original price of $2.00 on jacket front flyleaf; blurbs by Lisle Bell, Julia Peterkin and Oliver La Farge on jacket lower flyleaf); contains 40 poems in all (divided in 3 sections). Printed by the Ferris Printing Company.Kent, Rockwell (illustrator); 41 b/w Illustrations (including title page).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1931. Hardcover. Good. No Dust Jacket. Wearing and rubbing on covers and spine. Inscribed by previous owner on flyleaf. Interior is clean and unmarked. 64p. Rockwell Kent (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Presumed first edition (no additional printings listed). Original brown cloth, 5x8 ½ inches, 64 pp, illustrated with small black and white drawings by Rockwell Kent. Hardcover, fine in very good dustjacket. Spine portion of dustjacket and margins age tanned, ¼ inch tear and several lesser nicks and chips, price present. Book itself is tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. Poetry; modern first; literature.…

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Dust Jacket chipped, torn. Dust jacket in mylar guard. Illustrator: Rockwell Kent. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 22717. Rockwell Kent (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Poetry, Literature) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condition: Good. - Octavo, rust brown cloth titled in gilt with vignette stamped in gilt on front cover. The covers are lightly rubbed & soiled, with the top edge of the rear cover faded; the spine is slightly faded. 64 pages. There is an owner's book label on the front endpaper. Illustrated with black-and-white head-pieces by Rockwell Kent. Good. First edition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Brown cloth with gilt decorations and titles, 8vo, 64 pages, beautifully decorated by Rockwell Kent; a well kept copy; dust jacket is edgeworn, damp stain to top of rear, spine sunned, now in protective mylar. A handsome copy of Selma Robinson's first book of poetry. From the publisher: "She is, first, the city dweller, but dreaming as a city child will of the odd beauties of nature, colors caught and held in the imagination, songs heard in a dark alley or along a country roadside.…

Pictorial Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. In brown cloth with gilt decoration. Fascinating poems decorated by Rockwell Kent. About fine in a fine facsimile jacket. Rockwell Kent (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Previous owner's bookplate on front cover paste down. Hinges with small tears. Stained cloth and end papers. Record # 200834. Rockwell Kent (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. first edition. 5 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean but sunned at tops and spine. Minor shelf wear. Binding tight. PO's name and address on ffep. Text spotless. RK. RGR.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. (12) 13-64pp. Very good plus book in very good dust jacket. "First Regular Printing." Decorations by Rockwell Kent. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt-stamped illustration and lettering on front board panel; gilt-stamped lettering and graphics on spine. Light fading on outermost edges. Horizontal crease on upper edge at head of board spine. Upper external page edges are a bit dusty. Text pages are age-toned but clean. No marks or tears. Text block is sound. Dust jacket has overall soil. Extremities are sunned. Upper edge at head of jacket spine has several chips and rubs and a 3/8" closed vertical tear along the back spine fold. Tail of jacket spine has tiny chips. Upper edge of back jacket panel has a 1/4" closed vertical tear with adjacent diagonal creases to the upper edge. A 1 1/4" closed diagonal tear toward the upper end of jacket spine and partially into the back panel. Front in side flap has a 2 1/4" by 1 1/4" price clip. Right edge of inside front flap is rough-edged. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request. Rockwell Kent (illustrator). …

Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st ed. sl faded, no dj. Former owner's name Decorations by Rockwell Kent.; 64 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. First Edition. Extremely scarce Rockwell Kent title. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent illus.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. -; Very Good. No dust jacket. Spine sunned. Illustrated by Kent, Rockwell (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First regular printing. Scattered foxing, thin dampstain on top edges, cloth faded, a good only copy lacking the dustwrapper. Poetry.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Regular Printing. 64pp.; HB brwn.w/gilt emboss-pic.cover; rubbed w/wear on corners; spine sunned; some lt.tan w/clean,tight pgs. Poetry. includes advert.paper w/drawing by Robinson. inscribed to Carl Van Doren w/author sketch. Kent, Rockwell (illustrator). Signed & Inscribed By Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. Dust jacket's spine is darkened, tear to its front panel, other edge chipping but volume itself in nice condition. Illustrated with forty vignettes by Rockwell Kent (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 64 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Bottom corners slightly bumped. Faint sunning to edges of binding. Small "Byron Detroit" label on front blank endpaper. DJ moderately soiled. Spine sunned. Light chipping to corners and spine ends. Illust. w/ many decorations. Contents nice. Rockwell Kent (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Third edition. Owner's name penned on front fly, cloth edges lightly faded, else a very good copy in a very good faded dustwrapper with small nicks on edges. Poetry.

First Edition. CITY CHILD, Farrar & Rinehart, 1931, first edition, fine in vg dust-wrapper with some soiling.

Hardcover. 8vo. Pp (24), unpaginated. In publisher's illustrated laminated boards with a decorated gilt paper spine. Illustrated in colour throughout with 1 page of cut out characters and 8 pages of reversible cut out clothes. Price 29c to front board. Very good, edgewear to boards with a thin reverse `L' shaped (approx 3cm) red stain to bottom fore corner of front board. Slight lifting of laminate to the fore edge of the rear board. light rubbing. Pages clean and bright.…

First Edition. 8vo, 64pp, original brown cloth. Inscribed by poet Selma Robinson "For MIles and Laura Sutly" who are happy tho married, from the girl who hoped they would be all along--Selma," with an original sketch by Robinson. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Antique bookplate to front pastedown, minor toning to pages and fading to spine. Signed. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Slim octavo. 64pp. Poems, illustrated with forty vignettes by Rockwell Kent. Internally fine but for one small ink spot to each of three pages, as though someone wanted to mark their favorite poems. Light sunning to top edge of red-brown cloth boards. Rose-colored dust jacket, with Kent vignette, sunned at spine and edges, with small chips to edge, and half-inch closed tear along spine. Rockwell Kent (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 64 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on binding. Very bright and clean. Sunning to bottom edge of front cover. DJ has wear and tear to edges w/ pieces missing from top edges. Spine sunned. Illust. w/ b/w decorations. Contents nice. Rockwell Kent (illustrator). …

Unbound. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. One small vignette illustration by Rockwell Kent. Single sheet folded to make four pages. Very faintest offsetting, else fine. Issued to generate sales for the book. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Robinson's poetry is enhanced by Rockwell Kent's illustrations, in one of 300 copies of this book, all signed by Robinson and printed on Japanese paper. Robinson's career began with this collection of poetry, and became the editor of McCall's magazine in 1956. Blue cloth spine with art-deco design paper covered boards. Slipcase with same blue cloth with printed paper wrap. Paper title to spine. One of 300 copies, signed by Selma Robinson, and with a red heart "fingerprint" stamp from Kent. Fore and tail edge of pages are rough-cut. Condition: Paper covers to slipcase are slightly faded. Very minor bumping to corners. Book is near fine, text and illustrations are vibrant and clean. Page gatherings remain uncut at head. Rockwell Kent (illustrator).…