Ship Reuben (37 results)

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Searle, Ronald (illustrator). 1st UK Edition. VG, Shelfwear, bumping, spine lean, ink name, browning/VG, Edgewear, small chips, abrasion, browning. Satire. Expanded condition report/photo on request.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Very Good. ***GREAT CONDITION***CLEAN PAGES*** light edge wear. We specialize in non-fiction books. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Ronald Searle (illustrator). 1st Edition. 12mo. Pp. 119. A hilarious send-up of the McCarthy anti-Communist hearings, with frontispiece and full-page drawings by Ronald Searle. The Investigator questions Thomas Jefferson, Karl Marx, Socrates, Voltaire, and many more. Light foxing to fore-edge only, else a fine copy in cloth boards. The dust jacket, with Searle's drawing of the devil among plummeting bodies, is price-clipped and lightly toned at the spine. On the whole, very good to near fine. A great gift for those who remember the 1950's.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ronald Searle (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression of this important book in US history. Illustrated by Ronald Searle. Reuben Ship (18 October 1915 - 23 August 1975) was a Canadian playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1954 radio satire The Investigator, which lampooned the Army-McCarthy Hearings and the anti-communist paranoia of the Second Red Scare. Ship was a Canadian working in Hollywood who was named as a Communist and deported back to Canada. He found work in radio, advertising and film. He eventually moved to England. Very Good in a Very Good d/w.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: VG++, EPS & Edge-Foxing. Searle, Ronald (illustrator). 1st UK Edition. Satire. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in very good condition. First edition. A clean copy in excellent condition, appears unread. *Illustrated by Ronald Searle* Minor creasing and chipping to the dust jacket; dust jacket is price clipped. Light wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. RONALD SEARLE (illustrator). First Edition. owner's name to front paste-down, unclipped dj.

Ronald Searle (illustrator). Publishers black boards titled in gilt to spine. Original unclipped distract with some tape repairs to spine. Neat ink ownership inscription to FFEP. Pp119. Hardcover, 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing hardback in price clipped dustjacket. Bookin VG+ condition, with small neat gift inscriptionon front endpaper. Jacket in nice condition with age toning to spine. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. I am happy to supply scans.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher: Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1956. NEAR FINE+ hardcover book in NEAR FINE- mylar-protected dust-jacket. "A brilliant satire on McCarthyism." Wear at the DJ's tips. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped (8s. 6d. net). First Edition, First Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Searle, Ronald (illustrator). 1st Edition. True first British printing with original clipped jacket. Illustrations by Ronald Searle. Jacket has faults - namely a very small amount of loss to corners and head/tail of spine, few marks, edge/shelf wear, patchy browning (including to spine), few small tears and a little rubbing. Boards are near fine (having been well protected by the jacket) with very minor pushing to head/tail of spine (not major) and a little pushing/bumping to a couple of corners. The binding is tight. Previous owner's name in pen to front end-paper. Top of pages little dusty. Some foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Foxing/patchy browning/few marks to front and back end-papers. Occasional mark to some pages. No other faults. A tight copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

1st ed. Some foxing on end papers. Dust jacket not price clipped; large tear (no significant loss) at top edge of front panel. Jacket discoloured & worn at edges. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in fair dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in fair dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ronald Searle (illustrator). 1st Edition. Good tight copy, previous owner's signature, light wear and marks. Dust wrapper - Good condition, light wear and marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1956. Pictorial dustjacket VG. Not price-clipped. Red cloth very clean. Pages very lightly foxed at the edges, internally clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated by Ronald Searle. 119 pages.

Octavo, illustrations by Ronald Searle, boards. First edition. A fantastic satire on McCarthyism set in Heaven first heard as a radio play in Canada, recorded on tape by enthusiastic listeners, and bootlegged into the U.S.A. where it created a sensation. The play was recorded and produced as a phonograph record sold in Britain and the U.S.A. President Eisenhower was so delighted with the record that he often played it for White House visitors. Some light staining to top edge of text block, a nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with several faint stains on rear panel. (#87228).

first edition, 118pp illus, VG+( v sl bruised corners, minor foxing to ep's & edges) d/w VG(sl internal & external foxing, corners v sl scuffed, v sl sunned).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition 1956, Pages clean and bright, Binding firm, Light wear to edges, Dust jacket unclipped. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

HB BLACK CLOTH VERY GOOD PP119 DW DARKENED ON SPINE ABOUT VERY GOOD12MO Text radio play satirising McCartyhism, first broadcast 1954 , this edition, illus by R Searle.

118 S. OPp., OU. First Edition. With dustjacket. Sprache: englisch.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Very nice copy small octavo 119pp., frontis., illusts., Nice copy in like price-clipped dust jacket.

First edition. Hardcover, octavo; black boards with gilt spine titling; 118pp., monochrome illustrations. Owner's name. Minor wear; toned text block edges with spotting on upper edges and offsetting to endpapers; some scattered spotting to edges of early pages; Clipped grey illustrated dustwrapper with browning to spine and edges. Very good and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ronald Searle (illustrator). First Edition. The Investigator: A Narrative in Dialogue. Ship, Reuben. and Ronald Searle. Dust jacket price clipped. Black cloth with slight fade to title on spine. Slight lean. No ownership marks. Frontis. Illustrations by Ronald Searle. 119 pages clean and tight. Size: 12mo.

Hard. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Minus. Searle, Ronald (illustrator). First Edition. DJ tanned with light edgewear and some light scratching to front and a light 3" closed tear. Some light foxing to closed edges and endpapers, owner name to ffep, else pp in good order. Size: 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ronald Searle (illustrator). 1st Edition. Binding cocked slight rubs to all corners edges top and bottom of spine with small corner fade to spine bottom pages slightly browned minor fox to first few pages clean and Good. Dust Wrapper open split to spine top right corner 1.5cm minor loss to other spine corners 2cm open split to rear panel top and bottom fold tiny nicks to the corners spine browned repriced in pencil to front flap Good.

Publisher's Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Searle, Ronald (illustrator). First Edition. First edition, pp. 119, illustrated by Ronald Searle. In publishers red cloth with black lettering. Illustrated dust jacket has darkened spine and edges and internally page 96 has a tear but with no loss, otherwise very good in very good dust jacket. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION 1956, 8vo, red boards, black lettered spine, 119 pages. 8 full page black and white illustrations by Searle of the characters in the 'narrative in dialogue'. Satire attacking McCarthyism. No inscriptions, a few light fox spots on endpapers. A Fine copy in near Fine DUSTWRAPPER, not price clipped, slightly browned on spine and folds. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5ĵ''. Contains 119 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Ink ownership name to the half-title page. Very Good condition book, in Good condition dust wrapper with tanning of the paper to the spine and edges, not price clipped 8s 6d. Dust wrapper without any tears or chips and supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ronald Searle (illustrator). 1st Edition. Apparently unread. Minute age-toning to small areas on the end-papers. The black boards slightly leaning. The jacket with sharp edges, bright and clean panels, light smudges to the spine area. Priced at 8s 6 p on the inner flap. First British edition.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First edition. First edition. Illus. by Ronald Searle. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth. Fine in fine pictorial dj Illus. by Ronald Searle. 1 vols. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. 1956 Sidgwick & Jackson Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression. Near fine clean tight binding in very good+ unclipped dustjacket. Wonderful cover design & illustrations by Ronald Searle.