Shippey Lee Ewing (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A. L. Ewing (illustrator). 9" tall lilac and purple hardcover. Fading to spine and boards. Light bumping and rubbing along edges and corners. A little looseness to pages but all are attached. Pages are clean/unmarked. 96 pages. Only print info stated is "1930" on bottom of title page. Author signature on title page. "Being the second of the series which began with "PERSONAL GLIMPSES" the four books of which will form a sort of Who's Who of Southern California's more famous residents." Very Good or better condition overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ewing, A.L. (illustrator). Inscribed & dated by the author on the front fly-leaf.Paper-covered boards w/blue cloth spine cover are well-bound, sunned at spine & upper 1/2 of boards, some soil from handling. Endpapers tanning. Pages clean & sharp. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 96 Pp. Blue Cloth (Gilt), Violet Boards. No Indication Of Printing, But Apparently First Printing. Near Fine, Slight Fading To Edges Of Boards, 3/16" Split At Tip Of Upper Rear Tip. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Ewing, A.L. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1930. 1st Edition. Good - Very Good hardback book. No dust jacket. Square, tight and clean, and inscribed by the author. Corners bumped and two frayed. Blue cloth spine. 96pp. Sm 4to. (HW).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by A.L. Ewing (illustrator). First Edition. (no dust jacket) [modest shelfwear, slight exposure of boards at lower tips, a little age-browning around edges of boards, some puckering of cloth along rear binding]. (pen & ink portrait drawings) SIGNED by the author on the title page. A collection of brief profiles of notables, by this long-time Los Angeles Times columnist and sometime novelist; described on the title page as the second in a proposed series of four books "which will form a sort of Who's Who of Southern California's more famous residents." The subjects are: Carrie Jacobs Bond; Lawrence Tibbett; Zane Grey; Gloria Swanson; Ramon Novarro; Frederick Russell Burnham; Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Montague Glass; Ellen Beach Yaw; Hamlin Garland; Ruth Chatterton; Frank Hamilton Spearman; Cecil B. DeMille; Kathryn Leighton; David Wark Griffith; Frederick Warde; Jesse L. Lasky; Irene Rich; Ronald Colman; Ralph Waldo Trine; Bessie Love; James W. Foley; and John Steven McGroarty. The profiles are almost all a uniform three pages in length, with the one-page "interspersions" being examples of Shippey's poetry. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A.L. Ewing (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Paper covered boards over cloth spine, printed title on cover, some wear to edges, overall very good. Lee shippey profiles famous people living in the Los Angeles area including John Barrymore, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Earl Derr Biggers, Jack Dempsey, Clara Bow, William S. Hart, Will Rogers, and others. Printed in Sierra Madre. Quite scarce.

Condition: As New. Ewing, A L (illustrator). Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. Ewing, A L (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed by Shippey on the first free endpaper. Octavo bound in blue cloth and paper-covered boards. B&W drawn portraits. Condition: corners lightly bumped; boards sun-faded; else very good. 96 pages. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Ewing, A.L. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1929. 1st Edition. Very Good hardback book. No dust jacket. Square, tight and clean except for previous owner's bookplate. Inscribed by author's sister, Virginia Shippey Davis. Blue cloth spine. 96pp. Sm 4to. (HW).

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth and paper-backed boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 96 pages; Signed and inscribed by the author. 3 Kg.

Condition: New. Ewing, A L (illustrator).

Condition: As New. Ewing, A L (illustrator). Unread book in perfect condition.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth and paper-backed boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 96 pages; Signed and inscribed by the author. 1 Kg.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Ewing, A L (illustrator). Neuware.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODustjacket, SIGNED 1ST EDITION 1930, 1st Printing,VG+/GOOD, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Fded Purple boards with Blue Cloth Spine Titled in Black on Front Cvr, Cvr Foxing to edges & Rub, Wear, Gold spine cvr FADE, Interior Nice Tight clean Light Wear , Fox, 96 pgs, Quarter bound blue cloth spine and paper covered boards. Some staining and discoloration to the boards, ,Among the celebrities in this book are Gloria Swanson, Cecil B. De Mille, Zane Grey, Ramon Novarro, Hamlin Garland, D.W. Griffith and Ronald Coleman The Unknown Reporter, Jim Keene, Carrie Jacobs Bond, Kathryn Leighton, David Wark Griffith, Irene Rich, Ronald Colman, Bessie Love, John Steven McGroarty ETC. Scarce California history. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODustjacket, SIGNED 1ST EDITION, 1929, NOJACKET, PG 3 HAS some Large pink Marks ,VG+/GOOD-, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Faded Purple boards with Blue Cloth Spine Titled in Black on Front Cvr, Cvr Tiny Stains to edges & Rub, Wear Tiny chips, Gold spine cvr Light FADE, Interior Nice Tight clean Light Wear , Fox, 96 pgs, Quarter bound blue cloth spine and paper covered boards. Some staining and discoloration to the boards Especially Back Cvr, Includes Harold Lloyd, Betty Compson, Will Rogers, Ken Maynard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Al Jolson, Krishnamurti ETC, Cinema, Hollywood Folk, Self Published bits from His Newspaper Column, includes poem An Apple a Day by Byron Dudd & If It weren t For newspapers by Seymour Seitz, Author Shippey was an early Los Angeles newspaper man. Humorous 3 page sketches of Los Angeles' famous personalities of the 1920s, mostly film stars. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. Ewing, A L (illustrator). This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. Ewing, A L (illustrator). This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.