Targ William Ed (39 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Large 8vo. Black cloth. 503pp. B&w illustrations. 1st edition. Very good in chipped dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the mid 1940s of a collection of western stories from the 1910s through the 1940s. Penguin 654. Contents include The Man From Cherrycow (Dane Coolidge), The Caballero's Way (O Henry), Pecos Bill and the Willful Coyote (William C White), Gonzaleze Again, or The Bravo's Stratagem (Charles W Webber), The Ghost of Billy the Kid (Edwin Corle), The Marshall of Broken Lance (Frank Gruber), Guns Against the Law Badge (Will Ermine), The Drifting Kid Moves On (Harry Sinclair Drago, Shotguns Ain't Particular (E B Mann), The Seeing Eye (Will James) and How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar (Bret Harte). Light edge wear. Crease along the top edge of the front cover. Light browning to the pages. A good to very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the mid 1940s of a collection of western stories from the 1910s through the 1940s. Penguin 654. Contents include The Man From Cherrycow (Dane Coolidge), The Caballero's Way (O Henry), Pecos Bill and the Willful Coyote (William C White), Gonzaleze Again, or The Bravo's Stratagem (Charles W Webber), The Ghost of Billy the Kid (Edwin Corle), The Marshall of Broken Lance (Frank Gruber), Guns Against the Law Badge (Will Ermine), The Drifting Kid Moves On (Harry Sinclair Drago, Shotguns Ain't Particular (E B Mann), The Seeing Eye (Will James) and How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar (Bret Harte). Light edge wear. Small scrape at the top of the back cover. The laminate is starting to peel at the top and bottom of the spine. Spine lean. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Dust Jacket torn, spine sunned. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 23244.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st ed. in acetate dj, with several tears in dj.; HB, octavo; 303 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. These scarce books were produced from 1943 to 1947 for distribution to US Armed Services serving during and after World War II. These books were never designed to outlive the war effort, much less over 80 years! These books written by the novelists, educators, journalists, and scientists, are a rare glimpse into the decade of the Greatest Generation. THESE books were printed on lower-quality, thin paper, but they have held up against the test of time. Some have scratches, others have creases or dog-eared pages, some have rusty staples, some are yellowed or have foxing, others have tears or creases, but they are all true survivors! Part of the 'Armed Services Edition (#686)' series. Softcover edition. 384 pages. Dimensions: 6.5" by 4.5". 1st printing, 1945. Cover defect(s): Some creasing/wrinkling. Some staining/marking/writing/stickers. 0.5 Pound Media Shipping Rate with Multiple Product Orders. (Min Shipping Rate 1 Pound per Order). Order More and SAVE! Genre(s): Armed Services Editions / Miltary / Westerns / English. (B93).

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Dust jacket is in pieces inside front cover. Gray linen hardboards with blue illustration and gold lettering on face. Rubbing to ends and corners. Unmarked pages. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 503 pp.+ FoldOut Photo Plt at Frontis, Many Illus in Text, Blk Hardback, Gilt title, VG in VG chipped DJ, 1st ed.

hc. Condition: very good. 595 Collection of short pieces about the West. Features some well-known authors - Twain, Crane, Russell, Remington, Will James, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean, unmarked copy with firm hinges, sharp corners, clean boards/pages. DJ in VG+ condition. BP/Book Collecting.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. hbk 506pp lacks dj some fading to boards especially at the spine internally a very good clean tight unmarked copy.

Condition: VG+/VG+. 1st. 8vo. 503pp. Some offsetting from flaps to end papers, but a nice copy overall.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 503p. Ex-library. A black cloth hardcover book in good condition. Library markings inside, and a faint call number on the spine. Dusty soiling on cloth. Underlining on page 216; otherwise, text clean and binding secure. Features a foldout frontispiece and occasional illustrations.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in red cloth, stamped in black and gold. Lacks the dust jacket. A classic book on books and book collecting. 506 pp. Slight darkening to endsheets. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 246 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy. Record # 851773.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean pages, with no owners' marks, though with some toning in the margins throughout; square, securely sewn binding; full red cloth cover is moderately sunned at the spine, softened with spots of surface wear at spine ends and corners, with the gilt of the titles at the spine slightly flaked, otherwise sound. Lacks jacket. xii, 400pp. + 15pp. catalogue.

Trade paperback. Condition: Near fine. The Black Archer Press, 1935. 24pp. Minor rubbing on covers, clean unmarked interior, near fine paperback with cardstock covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. > SIGNED and inscribed by Author| > Edition/Printing: First edition / 1st Printing | A Treasury of Stories, Legends, Narratives, Songs, & Ballads of the American West. Boards have light soiling. Light edge wear. Interior pages are lightly tanned, no markings found. 595 pp. > DJ Acceptable, edge and cover wear. Tears and chipping to corners and edges. Shelf wear/aging. | > Language: English | > Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4 in - 9 3/4 in Tall | > Media/Binding: Hardcover |. Signed.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 503p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a good dustjacket. Owner's bookplate on front endpaper; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is tanned, spotted with light stains, and lightly chipped along the edges. An illustrated guide to collecting rare and vintage children's books.

Paperback. First Edition. Penguin Books 654. Collects eleven stories by Frank Gruber, E. B. Mann, Bret Harte, O. Henry, and others. Wear to covers. A very good copy. ; Small octavo.

hardback. Condition: Fine. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by WT. 1st ed. NY (Hermitage House) (1951). Review copy. Fine in chipped dust wrapper.

506pp. + Envoi & List 8vo title and frontispiece in black and red; other illustrations in black and white Red cloth 1st edition so stated Light pencil underlining erased, else Near Fine/no dj.

TARG, William, ed. Rare American Books Valued from $50.00 to $25,000.00 A Checklist of the Scarcest & Most Valuable American First Editions. Original printed wrappers. Chicago: The Black Archer Press, 1935. First edition. Slight spine wear, else a very good copy.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo in red cloth. Binding tight and square, modest shelf wear. The dustjacket is not price-clipped and has shallow chipping at the corners and spine ends.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 32 pp., Stapled Marbled Wraps, Good with some tears along spine, else VG. Illustrated. Facsimiles. "A paper read before the Rowfant Club of Cleveland, October 21, 1955"--Foreword. "Reprinted from Bouillabaisse for bibliophiles"--Title page verso.

Original publisher's black cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine and frontcover, red illustration spine & blindstamped illustration frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, thick large 8vo: folding frontispiece, 504pp., [ij], 23 contributions with plates & text-illustrations, table of contents, list illustrations, list contributors. Very fine copy.,

8vo (23.8x16cm), hardback, 503pp. Very good condition in good dustwrapper (price- clipped, general wear, some insect damage at spine and back cover, spine and edges sunned). Light wear, small indent at rear upper edge, light offset at endpapers, remains of bookseller's label at front pastedown. Pictures available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Baldwin Hawkes (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. First edition / first printing in Good+ condition with lightly soiled boards, bumped corners, rubbed dusty edges, penned annotations on several pages, and slightly loose spine in Fair dust jacket with considerable chipping to edges and panel creases, large tear to lower back panel edge and smaller tear to front lower edge; A remarkable anthology of stories, tales, and ballads from the Old West ; B & W Illustrations; 8vo ; 595 pages.