Rest Road: First Edition (22 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Support Small Business by buying this book! VERY GOOD+ No marks noted in text. Binding is tight and square. Gently read.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED by author on title page. Light edge wear and rubbing, clean copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Wonderfully illustrated by author. Signed by author with inscription. Faults: No dust jacket, slight staining to boards. Measures 7.5 x 5 x 1/2 inches. Part of a series, The Rest of the Road was one of several collections of verse that Blanding published. Other works include Vagabond's House and Memory Room.…

Blue Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Eighteenth Printing. Minor edge and corner wear, former owner's name in ink on the inner front cover, lightly scuffed and scratched, spine is faded, no dj, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, shelf worn, overall a clean signed used copy! Signed by the author on a special page opposite his black and white photograph! 114 unmarked and uncreased historical and poetic pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Wonderfully well-preserved! Blue cloth with silver lettering and illustration on the front cover and faded silver lettering on the spine. "Not for all the lonely winding road that leads across the hill Into the neverness beyond. And not for all the restless thrill Of changing skies. Only for him who knows the ceaseless urge To go.go ever on, carried by tide and trade-wind's pulsing surge." ---- from the Preface (Vagabond's Road). Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. By the Author (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition; Fifteenth Printing. Signed by the author to "Norma" with an inscription on the first blank page. Inside the front cover is taped an old new article from 1956 about the author. Of course there is yellowing to the page opposite. Boards are pretty nice, spine ends bumped and very slight wear, rest of the book is clean. The jacket has rubbbing and edgewear, a little chipping at the spine ends and corners, old water spots on the cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. In blue cloth, 8vo, 143pp. Signed and Inscribed By Author on free- front endpaper: "To Leda, Happy 'Rest of the road' - Don Blanding - may 21, 1946". (shelfwear and fading to outer extremities, toning to page edges, bookplate to endpaper) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed and Inscribed By Author. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1937. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Jacket has edge wear, short tears, tape repaired. 143 pages. Donald Benson Blanding (1894 - 1957) was an American poet who sentimentalized warm climates and was sometimes described as 'poet laureate of Hawaii'. The multi-talented Blanding was an Artist , Designer (Vernon Kilns Dinnerware, Greeting Cards, Hawaiian Clothing), Songwriter, Theatrical Actor, Director and Producer of Musicals, Soldier, Lecturer, Radio, Film and Television Personality, Newspaper Columnist, and founder of Lei Day in Hawaii. Blanding's poetry contains lush, lyrical images of Hawaii and the life of a vagabond. 6386.…

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good/Good. First Edition. New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company. Good/Good. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Signed by the author . Sm 8vo., 143 pp., DJ rubbed, spine faded, price-clipped, cover edges faded, shelfwear . Black & White Illustrations (illustrator).

First printing. Inscribed on the page opposite his photo "To . Aloha to you from Hawaii." NF/VG+ (edges of the blue cloth boards are faded, dustjacket is price clipped and spine is darkened.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Not First Edition; Thirteenth Printing. 8vo; 143 pages; Some fading and bumping to the blue cloth covers and spine. Inscribed by the author on the front free end paper. ; Signed by Author. Illustrated by Don Blanding (illustrator).

24 x 16 cm. Condition: Gut. 1. Edition. 77, 112 Seiten Softcover, Broschur teils mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Innen gebräunt, sehr sauber. In Englisch. Bitte beachten Sie unsere Bilder B15-04-02J Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 250.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. Dust Jacket: Yes. Unclipped. External Condition: Excellent condition. Internal Condition: Excellent condition. Author/Editor: Joynt, W.D. ISBN: 0908090129. Publisher: Hyland House. Year: 1979. Edition: 1st. Binding: Hardcover. Illustrated: Yes, B&W. Language: English. Page Count: 206. Keywords: Military, WWI, Gallipoli, Great War, Ypres. The book for sale is the one in the photo. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. 1937 date printed to the title page. Inscribed with the salutation "Aloha to you from Hawaii" dated 1937 and SIGNED by the author/illustrator to a preliminary page. Frontispiece photograph of Blanding arriving in Hawaii by seaplane. Generously illustrated with full-page and vignette pen-and-ink and wood-cut scenes, flora, cultures and people from the various places he traveled including, New Mexico, Spain, California, Florida and Hawaii. A collection of numerous poems and narrative verses that evoke feelings of culture, nature, the sea, beaches, history, and exotic landscapes. Fading to the cover borders and to the spine, else very good in blue linen with gilt embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine; in a very good dust jacket with a sailing scene illustration by Blanding to the front panel, tanning to the spine panel, some rubbing at the spine folds, and tiny chips to the upper and lower spine edges; original printed $2.00 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 143 pages; glossary. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. poetry and prose. some from columns in a hawaiian newspaper. also non-authorial gift inscription. nice artwork in book by author. Don Blanding (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

Pictorial Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. With light sunning to the exterior blue cloth; gilt lettering vivid and bright. Jacket has some light soil but is unchipped, with original $2.00 price. With gift insciption, else internally contents are like new. A lovely true first printing of this book of poetry and drawings. Don Blanding (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Jacket in Mylar Sleeve. First Edition. 206 pages, includes index. Black/white photos. A clean, straight, unmarked book, in an undamaged dust jacket, appears unused.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. Signed by author, boards are sun faded, some bumping and shelf wear, dj has wear also and price clipped, presumed first printing, dj protected in clear plastic cover. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. Spine tight, boards rigid and tips pointed. Text block square and clean except for previous owner's book plate on front free endpaper.Top of text block soiled. The later printing dust jacket is NOT price clipped but has some fray/loss and browning at edges especially at spine top and front bottom near tips. Now looks shiny and new in an archival mylar cover. Signed by Author(s).…

First Edition. Foreword by Colonel A. N. Kemsley. Pp. xviii+206, 8 plates, 2 text maps (one full page), index; demy 8vo; maroon papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, the boards a trifle canted, bottom fore-corners lightly rubbed; dust wrapper; top edges of leaves slightly foxed; Hyland House, Melbourne, 1979. First edition. *Autobiography. The author served with the 8th Australian Infantry Battalion, A.I.F., in the First World War. …

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo xii + 206pp., b/w plates, maps, index, Includes Accounts of Pozieres, Ypres, 2nd Bullecourt & 3rd Battle of Ypres & Passchedaele by the Great 8th Battalion Soldier & VC winner. Light edge-wear o/w a nice copy.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo xii + 206pp., b/w plates, maps, index, Includes Accounts of Pozieres, Ypres, 2nd Bullecourt & 3rd Battle of Ypres & Passchedaele by the Great 8th Battalion Soldier & VC winner. Owners' bookplate o/w a nice copy.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo xii + 206pp., b/w plates, maps, index, Includes Accounts of Pozieres, Ypres, 2nd Bullecourt & 3rd Battle of Ypres & Passchedaele by the Great 8th Battalion Soldier & VC winner.