Wright Fred Smith (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Brown cover with a gilt spine title and an embossed front title. About 9-1/4 x 6--1/4 with 446 pages. Illustrated throughout. Light frays to the extremities and a small fray repair near the bottom spine edge. The cover has some mild soil. Slightly shaken secure binding with clean pages. Original owner's name on the inside cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover, no jacket, first printing as indicated by the same date on title and copyright pages, the cover is scuffed and discoloration is present near the bottom of the rear cover, there is also a rather faint damp-mark that has made the bottoms of the pages a bit rippled the text is fine and none of the pages are damaged except for the faint mark, the end-papers are tanned, the binding is tight ; 446 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Bound of dark red cloth over boards with embossed lettering on front cover and orange lettering on spine. Covers are clean with light scuffing and minor wear to edges. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are clean and crisp with light uniforming toning and mild spotting on edges. Printed in B&W with illustrations and photographs throughout. 435 pages. Title page dated 1933. Copyright page dated 1924 and 1933. Previous owner's name written on front inside cover. A very nice copy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.

Hardcover. Condition: Original red cloth, gilt. First Printing of the First Edition. Westport, Connecticut:: Meckler, 1991. As New condition. No remainder marks. No owner's name or bookplate. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Fresh and crisp, obviously never read. Illustrated with a few photos. Compiled from interviews the author conducted in the 1970s with 20 professional ballplayers, including Paddy Livingston, Stan Coveleski, Bob Shawkey, Bob O'Farrell, Bucky Crouse, Eddie Sicking, Andy High, Joe and Luke Sewell, George Uhle, Glenn Wright, Bob Smith, Joe Hauser, Eddie Moore, Fred Blake, Nick Cullop, Ted Lyons, Woody English, Tony Piet, etc. Index. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Original red cloth, gilt/No Dust Jacket, as issued. 8vo. (iv), 356pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Dark red covers with blind lettering and decoration on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine, lightly rubbed joints, corners and spine-ends, sound slightly skewed binding, light foxing on end-papers, clean pages. Contains black and white illustrations. No dust-jacket. Previous owner's name in ink at front. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 76222021142. All our books are sent by tracked mail. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Wood, Stanley L.; Gilbert, A.; Pape, F.C.; Wood, Esmond; Wright, Frank; Rountree, Harry; Buchanan, Fred; Smith, Reg. F.; Evison, G. Henry; Gillett, F. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 194-284 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Romance of the French Foreign Legion; Adrift in a Mine-Field - two men drift through a mine-field in a crippled seaplane, fending off mines with their bare hands!; That Night - a rice-planter's cyclone ordeal on Bordelieu Island off the Florida coast; An Englishwoman in South America - Mrs. Mayer-Nixson describes the ways of Chilean (Chilian) policemen, the curious manners and customs of the people, and the odd habits of Chilean servants; The End of the Rainbow - an adventure of Etienne, a half-breed trapper in Northern Canada who had not heard of WWI; Rua the Prophet - the curious history of a Maori fanatic, Rua Kenana, who established a native "New Jerusalem" in the heart of the wild and inaccessible Urewera Mountains of New Zealand - article with great photos; Canada's Last Frontier - part II of a photo-illustrated narrative of a trip to Canada's Eskimo country - including a photo of Fort McMurray which was but a tiny clearing in the woods, plus a photo of an early oil well, and the Pelican gas 'gusher' which had been buring for 18 years!; Our Zambezi Lion-Hunt - adventure involving a black-faced lion; The Tale of the "Tara" - the adventures of the crew of the auxilliary cruiser "Tara," torpedoed off the North African coast - photo-illustrated article; Exploring the Black Canyon - A.L. Fellows and W.W. Torrence help tap a river by a tunnel which irrigates a previously barren valley in Colorado. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue.