Joe Pine by Smith Elbert (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Craig, Paul N. (illustrator). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 376. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1916 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 376.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Very rare signed copy. Author is grandson of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, and was leader of Mormon Church. Also, prior owner name in book. Book in very good condition except for a bit of discoloration on the top of spine and front cover, and some crunching of the spine top and bottom. Very hard to find. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Illustrations by Paul N. Craig. Small 8vo. Green cloth with red rules and black lettering and decorations. 352pp. Frontispiece, 7 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Binding a bit edgeworn and rubbed, though internally fine. A tight, attractive first edition of this scarce fiction by the grandson of Mormon founder Joseph Smith Jr. This superb presentation copy bears a full-page inscription from the author on frontispiece verso: "Mrs Inez Kinney: / Having known the joy / and beauty of the prairie / days, now gone for-ever, / you may perhaps appreciate / my pen picture of the / prairie, even if they are / not the best. Oh, yes, / and I must thank you / for posing for the heroine / As a peace offering to / atone for the liberty taken / in drafting you for that / position, please accept / this book with my / compliments -- / Elbert A. Smith." Inez Kinney Gaylord (1882-1974) was a New York-born worker for the YWCA who in 1914 married Edward K. Gaylord (1873-1974), the noted owner/publisher of the "Daily Oklahoman" as well as radio and television entrepreneur and civil leader/philanthropist. How and when Smith crossed paths with Inez Kinney is not known, but she impressed him enough to become the inspiration for this book's heroine, Molly Brady. Also, laid in is an unsigned Autograph Note pencilled on a heavy stock 5" X 3" card (undated, but of relatively modern vintage) in which the unknown writer transcribes a letter written from Elbert Smith to his/her grandmother, Luda Cook Smith of Mason City, Iowa, in which the author records "I modeled two characters after your father & mother." That father and mother were Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor winner Captain Henry I. Smith (1840-1910) and his wife Delight Bogardus Smith (1845-1924). Whether all these Smiths are related to Elbert Smith is unclear. Elbert A. Smith (1871-1959) wrote many fiction and nonfiction titles with a Mormon emphasis; he was a leader of the RLDS Church (Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), serving as a member of that church's First Presidency (1909-38) and as Presiding Patriarch (1939-58). A very scarce title with absolutely unique and lengthy author inscription to his heroine's model.