Stuart Benton (84 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illus. By Thos. Hart Benton (illustrator). Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Thomas Hart Benton (illustrator). Book Club Edition. E.P. Dutton & Co., New York. 1943. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Winner of the 1943 Thomas Jefferson Award. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light sunfading to top edges of boards. DJ: Very Good; light suntoning to spine; toning to DJ; light wear to head, tail, and tips. Green cloth boards and spine with red lettering on spine and front board with picture of mountain men in red on front board. Tinted textblock top. Artwork by Thomas Hart Benton the famous Midwest painter. 303 pp 8vo. Written by a product of the Kentucky Hills, this story is told by Sid about his Hill Country family who have the problem of not working and getting the relief money or working in poverty. The death of his uncle in WWII and the survivor's money brings out all the freeloaders to the new rental house. This dream is short lived and poverty soon returns. The twist is that Private Tussie does return (mistaken burial) and Sid finds out that his aunt is really his mother - thus Sid has a father and a mother and the father is a changed man from the war and is now industrious and works for wages setting a proper example for Sid. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Thomas Benton (illustrator). Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Nice copy, clean and unmarked. Jacket a bit worn at edges, small chips. "Winner of the 1943 Thomas Jefferson Southern Award".

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Thomas Hart Benton (illustrator). First Edition (stated). First Edition stated, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo in rust cloth w/black titles, deckled vertical page edge. Near Fine/No DJ. Cloth lightly scuffed, 1/2 title page has 1" chip at top, else Fine and unmarked. 253pp; illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Benton, Thomas (illustrator). light board wear and fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Benton, Thomas (illustrator). Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover edges and corners are lightly rubbed. Boards are mildly soiled. Binding is tight. 303pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illus. By Thos. Hart Benton (illustrator). Book Club Edition. Book Club Edition; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 303 pages; Green DJ with edge wear. Mylar cover. Green cloth with brown lettering very lightly rubbed edges. Text block clean and pages tight. Illustrated by Thomas Benton.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Preparation and Polymerization of Some Unsaturated Isocyanates. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Thomas Benton (illustrator). BCE. Red decorations on green cloth. Spine slightly faded. Owner's name written on ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Thomas Benton (illustrator). Book Club (BCE/BOMC). A classic. Illustrated Mylar-protected dust-jacket is excellent, with only slight wear at the edges and some sunfading on the spine. Greenish boards with reddish type are excellent. The interior is very clean and tight, with only a neat ink inscription on the front free endpapers. 303 pages. Beautifully illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Presumed First. Hardcover Fiction. A wry look at the imaginary West, written in dialect. In good condition with a number of Benton illustrations.

Paperback. Condition: New. Here is a remarkable vintage tour-de-force of the Fifties, in which Stuart Benton explores the range of human experience from the sublime to the exotically degrading.Marriage, illicit love, the uneasy relationship between children and parents, business success and failure, a trial for murder, a descent into the underworld of society, and later ascent to the delights of a swiftly-moving, jaded society set-all these can be found in the fabric of All Things Human.John Stuart Kent is a millionaire banker and aesthete, living out the Indian Summer of his life as the shape of his future is altered by five extraordinary women:Helen, his young wife, a resentful Galatea whose pathological jealousy cools their relationship.Sylvia, a fascinating and magnanimous Wagnerian singer, with flaming red hair and a fresh attitude toward love.Aimee, a courtesan, par excellence.Edda, Kent's secretary, sweet, young and unashamed who fumbles into scandalous catastrophe.Ivy, a sophisticate of enormous wealth and esoteric accomplishments.John Stuart Kent endures a Faust-like descent to a modern, mechanized Hell, experiencing all the humiliations and betrayals of modern society and its strange criminal procedures on his way. In the fight for his good name and his liberty, Kent must use all of his charm and wit, and enlist the help of a few friends, or he could be stuck in the abyss of the criminal system forever.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Thomas Benton (illustrator). 301 pp. Later printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Thomas Hart Benton (illustrator). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. & FG 497 & FG 151 (2) & FG 751 & FG 98 & FG 2061 & FG 273 & FG 875**.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. Thomas Benton (illustrator). Book Club (BCE/BOMC). (1943), 303pp, illus., bottom corners lightly bumped, light shelfwear to cover, slight edgewear to dj, contents clean.

Condition: Good. Thomas Benton (illustrator). Hillbilly type cartoons. Sequence of events is so rapid, so much in poetry and comedy, and the tale unfolds unexpectedly that your interest is held as in any adventure story. Hard Cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Thomas Hart Benton (illustrator). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illustrated by Thomas Benton & Kentucky Author & FG 770 & FG 258 (2)L & FG 296 & FG 208 & FG 497 & FG 37***.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Thomas Benton (illustrator). Green clothbound without a dustjacket is very clean with square edges and a tight binding. Text and Benton illustrations are excellent and fresh; inside front cover has adhered brochure of Thomas Benton's historic home in Kansas City, MO., and also, prior owner name plate. Exterior cloth has faint edge wear/sun fading to top. Excellent exterior title blocks.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Thomas Benton (illustrator). Book Club Edition. F/VG, used, hc, greyish cloth with orangish text on spine and upper, 303 pages. Interior clean, no marks, binding tight. Slight edge wear to dj at corners and head and tail of the spine, dj enclosed in protective sleeve. As there is no price on the inside of the dj I am thinking this may be a book club edition but I do not have enough experience with this time period to know.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. Benton, Thomas Hart (illustrator). Illus. by Thomas Hart Benton. Green cloth, illustrated at center front, 303 lightly browned pages, illustrations throughout. Copy of Book-of-the-Month Club news included. DJ front and spine has green background with small Benton illustration at bottom front, praise for book on back. DJ has slight wear to front tips, very tiny tear and tiny wear spot at spine top left edge, micronick at spine bottom left edge, very tiny tear at bottom back edge, back very lightly browned. Near Very Good DJ/Fine book.

Cloth. Condition: Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: No. Benton, Thomas (illustrator). First Edition. believed to be the true first edition, pale green cloth with red stamped illustration on the cover. No jacket. Fading to the spine and some signs of age and wear. Sepia red illustrations are wonderful throughout this classic book. email us for a picture, we ship fast.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Previously water damaged.

Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Benton, Thomas (illustrator). The cover boards have minimal wear, but the cloth has yellowed around the edges and on the spine. There is a book plate on the front free endpage. The text is clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Blue cl. w. orange letters, design. dj. bkstr. sl. tanned, has chips top and bottom. Frontis. Illus. 303pp. BOMC.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illus. By Thomas Benton (illustrator). Book Club Edition. Blue cl. w. orange letters, design. dj. in mylar. Bookplates inside front cover and ffep. Frontis. Illus. 303pp. Endpapers sl. spotted from glue or Scotch tape, o.w. VG. BOMC.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Here is a remarkable vintage tour-de-force of the Fifties, in which Stuart Benton explores the range of human experience from the sublime to the exotically degrading.Marriage, illicit love, the uneasy relationship between children and parents, business success and failure, a trial for murder, a descent into the underworld of society, and later ascent to the delights of a swiftly-moving, jaded society setall these can be found in the fabric of All Things Human.John Stuart Kent is a millionaire banker and aesthete, living out the Indian Summer of his life as the shape of his future is altered by five extraordinary women:Helen, his young wife, a resentful Galatea whose pathological jealousy cools their relationship.Sylvia, a fascinating and magnanimous Wagnerian singer, with flaming red hair and a fresh attitude toward love.Aimee, a courtesan, par excellence.Edda, Kents secretary, sweet, young and unashamed who fumbles into scandalous catastrophe.Ivy, a sophisticate of enormous wealth and esoteric accomplishments.John Stuart Kent endures a Faust-like descent to a modern, mechanized Hell, experiencing all the humiliations and betrayals of modern society and its strange criminal procedures on his way. In the fight for his good name and his liberty, Kent must use all of his charm and wit, and enlist the help of a few friends, or he could be stuck in the abyss of the criminal system forever. An epic novel of love, passion, crime, and the criminal system set in America in the 1940s. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Thomas Benton (illustrator). Clean book. Pictures on request.