Venable Clarke (73 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. Unmarked, clean and solid copy in clean, not price clipped dust jacket. Normal shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 369pp. "An Historical Novel Of Texas".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo. 290 pages. Hardcover bound in b lack cloth with lettering in yellow. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. Corners are a bit bumped. Secure inner hinges. Map endpapers. Text is clean. Covington Clarke was the pseudonym of Homer Clark Covington (1891-1953), who wrote some boy's adventure (and some science fiction) books. Born in Missouri, he lived in Virginia for about 20 years, during which he wrote this book. This is one of his adventure novels set in the Civil War.

Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. "A small insription on the dedication page. Third printing. Jacket is crimped and worn 1/4"" up from bottom on spine. Worn a bit at top of spine. Not chipped. Price is cut off the flap.".

Decorative Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Maroon Cover with Black lettering on front & spine with wagon & horse in black on bottom of front & **(2)**.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. This book does not have its original spine or covers. It has been re-bound by a library. It is being sold as a reading copy. Former library book. Has been repaired by replacing the spine and meanding the hinges. Has been glued back into its covers after being shaken loose. The hinges have been meanded preserving the original covers and spine. Minimal edgewear. Minimal shelfwear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Hardback. Condition: Excellent condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good dust jacket. 369 p. 20 cm. Not price clipped.Book is as described - all defects and marks are noted.A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. none (illustrator). Reprint. Bound in navy cloth with titles and rules stamped in gilt. Although the book states that the illustrator is Harry W. Armstrong, R& L stopped using a frontipiece in 1926 and subsequently removed the from earlier titles as they were reprinted. This copy has no frontispiece (and ne ver did), so we know it a later printing, probably from 1926, as the Roy J. Snell titles listed as advbertisement list his boks through the titles published that year. The cloth shows no wear, the hinges are solid and binding is square. A clean, tight, unmarked copy of Venable's first book as Clarke, a juvenile western.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Bound in navy cloth with titles and decorations stamped in gilt. Early copy with an inscription from Christmas 1927. Book once belonged to Henry Cabell Maddux Jr., whose daughter was murdered by her estranged husband in 1971. The cloth shows only a trace of edgewear; the spine lettering is rubbed but still quite legible. Hinges solid (the front one has a small spot of insect damage); binding square. A clean, tight copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Marbled green DJ, rubbed and darkened, cover and text solid. FER.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gretter, Clemens (dust jacket art) (illustrator). Reprint. Volume 1 in this series. Bound in green cloth with titles and rules stamped in black. No illustrations. Reprint circa 1930 listing 4 titles on the rear flap of the dust wrapper. This copy lacks the requisite illustrated endpapers and 8 pages of aerial acrobatics found at the rear of the first edition, which also has blue cloth and cover lettering stamped in gilt. There are no ads at the rear. The cloth shows only a hint of edgewear; the dust jacket has moderate edgewear with shallow chipping at the head and heel, and a 1" chip to the lower front panel at the spine. Former owner's info in ink to the front pastedown, with later pencil inscription to the ffe. Hinges solid; binding square. A clean, tight copy, with the wrapper now in mylar. The jacket art is not signed, but it is clearly Gretter's work. He became established at R&L in 1927 and worked there until moving to NY in 1932, when he began signing his work as "J. Clemens Gretta". Mattson & Davis 01625.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Minus. No Jacket. Good minus with wear and chipping to edges of boards and some minor soiling. Former owner's bookplate on front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. 3rd Printing. Black cloth covers, 329 pages. Pencil dedication on free front endpage, some darkening at front and rear gutters; 5 x 7 3/4 ".

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good or better. Second printing. Black cloth hardcover with general wear, none severe -- bright text stamping to front cover and spine, clean, sound binding, first few pages with tiny indents, former owner's name with 1927 date (W. H. Zallman, Jr. ?), otherwise an unmarked copy with clean pages. No dust jacket. A very good reading copy. Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome.

hardcover. Condition: near very good. 3rd printing. Octavo, black cloth covers with orange titles. 329 pages. No dust jacket. little fading on top cover, else very good. World War I novel. 092508E.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Cloth spine & mottled-blue boards with the decorative paste-on title, ( Moderate wear to the covers corners), 66pp. Prefatory note by Henry Van Dyke. No names or other markings. No d/j., else V.Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 369 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo illus. With a Prefatory Note by Henry Van Dyke. 1st Ed. -Life & experiences of a black bass. 58-388. Prior owner's inscription on endpaper. Very Good-Fine no DJ.

Condition: good. Hbk 66pp illustr b+w drawings no dj quarter cloth over decorated paper-covered boards rubbed, bumped and toned at extremities now in custom acetate jacket internally a very good clean tight unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Light edge wear to jacket.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. With a prefatory note by Henry van Dyke. Octavo, 66 pages. 010608A.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition,1p. VERY GOOD Condition .names in pencil ep "Babe Maeller, Eva Andrews". else clan solid fairly bright copy. ; REd spine & cover titles on BLACK CLOTH HARD COVERS.White endpapers.; 239pg pages; Story of young man from rural maountains who decides to join the army.plain simple talk and being called a "hill billy or "white trash" was fighting words." Pre WW2 military described with much attention to detail.correct or otherwise.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. One-inch tear to jacket. A very nice copy in a nice jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. THIRD PRINTING.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. An Idyll of a Little River. Prefatory Note by Henry Van Dyke. 1st ed. Chicago (Reilly & Lee) (1925). A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Square and unmarked in full cloth binding. Map endpapers. 369pp. Jacket is price-clipped and shelf scuffed, in a protective mylar cover. A western romance of old Texas. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Condition: New.