Grenadine Etching by Ruark Robert (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First Edition 1947. 270 pages. sticker with hand written price on front end page, no other markings. Seller Inventory #D1072.

Paperback. first edition. K-121 very good - fine, spine crease paperback,

Condition: good. USED book in GOOD condition. Great binding, pages and cover show normal signs of wear from use.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1947. Very Good. Creasing on the spine. Minor wearing and nicks on covers. Interior is clean and unmarked. 192p.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Paperback Edition. A good first paperback edition, a store stamp in front.

Paperback. first edition. K-121 near fine , unread paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG/G+ as d/w chipped and creased in two places, rubbed spot, tp and cp dates match. His first book. Price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Tears On Dust Jacket, Held Together With Protective Mylar Cover.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Book condition is good. Some minor edge wear to front tail corner, head spine edge and front tail edge near spine. Some yellowing to leaves due to age. Minor shelfwear. Hilarious spoof of historical novels. Complete and unabridged. 192 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 270pp. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Jacket price $2.75. Spine is cocked and a bit shaken. Tips and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Spine is rolled. Edges of text block have light dust staining. Former owner name on front endpaper. Tape splices on inside both boards with tape shadows to both endpapers. Jacket is poor with many flaws inscluding damp staining to top and bottom, heavy chipping and pieces missing along the edges.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Book Good. No dust jacket. (Historical fiction, humor).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good copy of the first edition hardcover in original jacket, complete with $2.75 price (jacket nicked with some darkening and wear; book has light wear to edges and a wrinkle to cloth at upper spine).

Taschenbuch Gut. Seiten 205 / In englischer Sprache / Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 250.

Dark Pink Cloth. Condition: Near Fine (NEAR NEW). Not Illustrated (illustrator). First Uk Edition. Please email for further details Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Signed By an "R Down".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. First Published in 1947, this is the later printing in 1948. A Fine copy in black cloth, stamped in red, in a Very Good dustwrapper, not price-clipped, spine panel dulled, with rubbing to spine-ends, design by cartoonist R.Taylor. 270pp. Q21938.

Softcover/Paperback, Condition: Gut. 206 S. Zustand: gut; lichtgebräunt C-X4829 Wenn das Buch einen Schutzumschlag hat, ist das ausdrücklich erwähnt. Rechnung mit ausgewiesener Mwst. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 165.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. Ruark's first novel, a send-up of historical fiction, published shortly after World War II when he was a popular syndicated columnist, and almost 10 years before the book by which he is best known - "The Old Man and the Boy." This begins with Grenadine's strange birth in antebellum New Orleans French Quarter and follows her equally strange life. 270 pp. Very good in tan cloth with red lettering in a fair only dustjacket with rubbing and edgewear, some loss at the ends of the spine, sunning to the spine, but a tight copy with the original price of $2.75 on dj flap.

8vo. x, [2], 270 pp. Illust. title. Gray-green cloth, pink lettrng, w/ d.j. cover art by R. Taylor (mnr chppng hd of spine, mnr creasng, couple mnr clsd tears), VG/VG- copy. Second printing of Ruark's first work, a satirical spoof on the popular historical fiction genre of the period.

Enc. Cart. ed. sobrecubierta. 19x13. 256p. PEDIDO MINIMO, 6.00 EUROS. ENVIO GRATUITO HASTA 1 KILO A LA PENINSULA SIN NUMERO DE SEGUIMIENTO. PARA OTRAS FORMAS DE ENVIO, LEA CONDICIONES. (PAYPAL +1,80 HASTA 50, RESTO +5.95%). EN ALMACEN. LITERATURA EE.UU. LIBRO EN INGLÉS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 7.5 x 5", red textured boards, 256pp, covers rubbed and lightly soiled, extremities bumped, pp toned, former owner's bookplate on half-title page, in a toned, worn, creased, edge-torn and lightly soiled dustjacket. FIRST UK EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback. Clean copy in good condition. Some scuffing of hardcover and colouring of pages due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York. 1947. 270 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light chipping, shelf-wear and rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine nad the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This was Robert Ruark's first novel and is a spoof of the historical romances that were popular at the time it was written (late 40s). The story centers around the life of a young woman born in New Orleans around the turn of the century. Her early years are spent under the care of a large African-American woman who is skilled in the arts of voodoo and a large gorilla. After Grenadine murders her first lover, the trio must flee New Orleans and progressively travel to Cuba, Australia, New Guinea, New York City, and a wide variety of other places (some of which are only hinted at in the story). Along the way she makes a fortune first in the slave trade, then by inventing and marketing cigarettes. They occasionally encounter famous people of the era, such as Ernest Hemingway, who are parodied. E-350; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A novel. The author's first book. Stated first edition. Very good in a very good (moderate edge wear with a few small chips, age darkened) dust jacket.; 270 pages.

British first edition (with Frederick Muller requisite "First published . . ." statement upon copyright page) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 256 pages. Hardcover: H 19cm x L 12.75cm. Dust jacket with color pictorial front panel and spine; some rubbing with nicks, scuffs, and some creasing at edges; soiling to white rear panel; slender toning along folds and at top of flaps; front flap retains publisher's printed price at bottom corner; dj presented in an older Demco mylar protector. Dull magenta cloth with bright gilt stamped lettering to spine. Toning and foxing to text block edges and endpapers; light foxing at margins of several initial and rear leaves but interior pages remain mostly clean. Binding is firm. Author's seven-line black wax pencil inscription "For Rachel and | Jack - such | nice pickups | on the Costa | Brava, | Best | Bob Ruark" on the front free endpaper. This British first of GRENADINE ETCHING was issued some seven years after Doubleday published the first American edition in 1947 but, nonetheless, inscribed/signed copies of Ruark's first novel are exceptionally uncommon. Acquired from the estate of entomologist and big game hunting aficionado Dr. David F. Young, Jr. (1922-2017) who, for many years, chaired the Extension Entomology Department at Mississippi State University but with no preceding provenance known. Although the inscription is undated, Ruark likely signed the book in his final five years of life during which he resided in London, Barcelona, and, most coincidently, Sant Antoni de Calonge in Spain's Costa Brava region.

London, Frederick Muller, 1954. 19x13 cm. 256 p. Cartoné editorial. Dedicatoria del autor. Buen estado. Primera edición inglesa. (Ref. PS. 307-H).