Fools Parade by Vandercook John: First Edition (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (February 1930) hardcover, quarter-bound in green cloth, with red and black boards, is in GOOD condition, having a stain at bottom right of front cover, and bottom left of back cover; slight slant to spine; spine darkened with age; fading to top edge of covers (front and back); very slight handling wear (dimpling) to some pages, and rubbing/scuffing to half-title page. Dust jacket, enclosed in protective mylar (mylar not pictured), is in POOR condition, having fading to front, darkening to spine, rips and tears to edges, missing pieces at top and bottom of spine, rips along the folds; former owner attempted repair on inner side of jacket by placing cellulose tape over a tear. Book and jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine. Fiction. Short stories. American. Early 20th century. Fiction set in Africa. DB.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition 1930 B-E code fair condition hardcover, cracked front hinge boards sunned areas, tears to seams, part front flap, pasted in, spine, lettering spine and front bright no dust jacket, gently read clean Varne circulating lib faint stamp name, Mahlon Blaine endpapers, Rive convicts escape a brutal prison in Africa and survive in the jungle for months.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition (so stated; "B-E"). 8vo. 6 full page illustrations by Mahlon Blaine; pictorial endpapers. Title page printed in red and black. Original 1/2 green cloth over pink boards. Very good. 270 pages. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips and creases, jacket toned, spine slightly cocked, top page ridge lightly foxed. 1930 Hard Cover. 270 pp. Five convicts, five men of utterly different character, escape from the most famous and most terrible prison in the world. They plunge bare-foot, without guns or tools or food, into the vast equatorial forest. …

1st. ed. Mahlon Blaine drawings. v.g. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. ix. Six Illustrations by Mahlon Blaine and decorations. 270pp. Blue illustrated lining papers. Green cloth spine with pasted black and gilt title label on spine and orange paper over boards with title on front board. Slightly bumped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mahlon Blaine (illustrator). Hardcover. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Signed by Vandercook -- Fair to Good (a little worn & hinges have been reglued). Mahlon Blaine (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very good in boards. Slight lean to spine else near fine. Owner address stamp. Stated First Edition.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very good in boards. Wear to spine ends and corners. Soiling to front board and to edge pages.

Hard Cover. First Edition. Octavo, pp., ix, [3], 270. With 6 full page plates plus vignettes to title-page and chapter divisions, decorative head- and tail-pieces and initial lettters, some printed in red, and pictorial endpapers all by Mahlon Blaine. With an original pen and ink portrait sketch of an African tribesman in full headdress to verso of front endapaper and inscribed "For J G Lamoureux: Marlon Blaine". Publishers' jade green quarter cloth with black titles to gilt panel to spine and deep pink paper-covered boards with black title strip, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips and corners rubbed; contents clean and bright. Jacket split to upper joint and partially split to lower fold, and creased with small loss to edge. A very good copy in fair dust-jacket.…