Stade Odo (4 results)

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Hinges cracked. Owner's name on inside. (Mexican Revolution, Biography, Mexico, History).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Name of the previous owner written on the front free end paper page. Publication of 383 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. Complete with all plates. Re-Bound in recent full black leather. New end papers. Frontispiece. The boards are in lovely condition. The text remains legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 383 pp. Octavo [22.5 cm]; Black cloth over boards with an illustrated map of Pancho Villa's Mexico on pastedowns and free endsheets. Previous owner's inscriptions ("Mildred") in marker on half title, along with author's own notations and corrections throughout. Deckled page ends. First front and rear inner hinges are cracked, but holding. Spine is faded. Corners and edges are gently bumped, with slight fraying to the cloth beginning on spine ends. Light scuffing to boards. "Edgcumb Pinchon was General Secretary of the Workers' International Defense League and a great admirer of Villa." The inscription reads: "Edgcumb worked at M.G.M. / on scenario for movie . / after M.G.M purchased the rights to / the story." And, "The author's own copy / with notations after / publication / Mildred / 1945 / after his death." It is presumed that the "movie" was 1934's "Viva Villa!", starring Wallace Beery, directed by Jack Conway, of which follows the same story as Pinchon's novel. The identity of "Mildred" is unknown,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Original gilt-titled cloth, map endpages. Stated first edition. Lengthy inscription to the ffep verso from co-writer Odo B. Stade to previous owner "Delmer" (Delmer Daves, noted screenwriter/director. ) Not signed by Pinchon. Stade was a California resident and renowned scholar, author, and charge d'affaires in Mexico; a Renaissance man. Cloth is mottled; pages have occasional foxing, mostly near the plates, which are all present. The DJ in mylar is sunned, chipped/edgeworn, foxed, price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.