Find by Pinchon Edgcumb (9 results)

Hard cover. First edition. 7 p. l., 3-324 p., 1 l. 20 cm. Illustrated lining-papers. "First Edition." Very good. No dust jacket. moderate shelfwear, mild toning to cover, first stated.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Chipped and slightly darkened d/j.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No jacket.

Illustrated Cloth. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Bumps to spine ends, foxing to edge of covers, otherwise a nice sound, clean,and unmarked copy; map endpapers, front cover shows nice watercolor of boy on a horse, matches jacket art. Jacket shows wear at edges and corners, small chips top left front, top left back, not price clipped. the story of a boy growing up on the Isle of Wight.

1st edition. 8vo. 320pp. Occasional slight foxing, original brown cloth, in rubbed and torn d/w. US$10.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Lovely copy of the first edition. Text is bright and clean, though the page edges are age toned. Boards are lightly worn, and the spine is age toned. Small puncture mark on the spine. 324p.

First Edition. Isle of Wight set novel of boyhood during the Victorian reign. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine, cm deep area of chipping along top rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Pre-publication "author's copy," which is hand printed in ink on the first blank, and which lacks title page and dedicatory page to Elsie Dufour, his wife. Gift inscription on the second blank as follows: "To Mrs. Burnell - | in love and appreciation. | Claribel Castle." 8vo. [14]3-324[8]p. Tan cloth with black letters and green and red bars on the spine and with what appears to be a water color vignette in black, green and red on the front cover of a man riding a horse at breakneck speed through a forest which is signed "Salter". The endpapers are a map of the Isle of Wight off the English south coast with what must be numbers identifying various locations presumably identified in the text of the novel. Top edge stained maroon, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Very minor wear to extremities with nothing rubbed through, top of spine just barely beginning to fray, spine ever so slightly faded, covers slightly darkened, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. This copy was compared to the digitized version on Hathi Trust in order to verify what is missing. Edgcum Pinchon (1883-1945) was born in England. He had a varied writing career as a Socialist journalist (in the 1910s), a novelist and biographer, and in the 1930s, a writer for Paramount Studios. His most famous book, which was made into a movie, was Viva Villa, about Pancho Villa. A NYTimes review describes Until I Find as a "story of boyhood adventure and conflict of soul, romantic gypsy inheritance at odds with a more staid temperament drawn from Anglo-Saxon forbears." The claim is made that Pinchon had gypsy blood himself, but perhaps that is Hollywood PR. In his thirties he was General Secretary of the International Workers Defense League of Los Angeles, a left-wing association interested in economic justice. He was convicted in August 1918 under the Espionage Act for helping to smuggle another man into Mexico to evade the draft, sent to McNeil Prison, Washington State, and paroled October 1918 (per the L.A. Herald and records on Ancestry). His first name is sometimes spelled Edgecomb. Claribel Castle, who has inscribed this book, was apparently his editor. I'm not sure who Mrs. Burnell was. The volume offered here is a fictionalized account of a boyhood set on the Isle of Wight in the era of Queen Victoria.

First Edition. Gypsy themed novel set in "New Forest and the Isle of Wight in the last years of Queen Victoria's reign. The son of a government official learns the Romany tongue, songs and horsemanship. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, modest wear and soiling, chipped at top spine end.