Vogues First Reader, Used (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 557 Pages. Introduction In Front. Index Of Authors In Rear Of Book. Pages Tight; Moderate Page Wear. Page Edges Slightly Darkened. No Markings On Pages. End Pages Show Some Yellowing; Few Smudges. Tan Linen Like Hard Covers With Black Lettering On Spine. Moderate Self Wear; Corners Somewhat Bumped; Some Fading, Rubbing, Smudges, Slight Soiling. Over 90 Articles That Were Originally Published In "Vogue". None Of Them Has Ever Appeared In Any Other Anthology. Articles Are About 6-10 Pages In Length. Few Of The Titles Include: Conversational Kleptomania; A Prologue To America; The World Within Us; Happy Land; The Scars Of London; Me And The French; Off Stage Noises; The Lady Is An Engineer; Bucks County Auction; Decor And The Morons; The Infant Gourmet; My Favorite Cooks; Winston Churchill's American Mother; War On Our Road; Splendide Apartment; The House Of Vanderbilt, Etc. Rare Vintage Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. There is some wear to the cover. The book has wear on the corners. There may be some marks in or on the book. Books are stored on a bookshelf in A/C. They are in a dark room and are well maintained. If you have any questions or concerns about this book please contact me. There is some wear to the cover. The book has wear on the corners. There may be some marks in or on the book. Books are stored on a bookshelf in A/C. They are in a dark room and are well maintained. If you have any questions or concerns about this book please contact me. Publisher: Julian Messner. Author: Frank Crowninshield. Binding: Hardcover.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 557pp, 1942. Cloth hardcover, no dustjacket. Former owner's bookplate on inside front coverCovers, yellowed with minimum wear. No marks or tears, rear hinge lightly cracked. An anthology of essays thar first appeared in Vogue Magazine. Size: 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good/none, used, vii-xvi, 557pp. Interior clean, no marks, pages slightly toning, binding tight. Shelf rubbing to exterior. The bottom edge of the lower board appears worn or possibly chewed slightly. Short stories by: Ernest Hemingway, Ilka Chase; Ford Maddox Ford; Clare Booth; Cecil Beaton and many more.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Very large, heavy book, gray cloth with red bar-design along front left, spine very slightly faded and lightly browned, 557 pages. Very slight wear between final end papers along spine. Light wear to bottom front tip, light brown stain at top back edge and nearby final end papers' tips. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Slight fading to lettering to spine. Front endpaper missing. ; "Vogue's First Reader," edited by Frank Crowninshield, is a collection of writings originally published in Vogue magazine, with a foreword by Crowninshield himself. It features a diverse range of pieces, including essays, humorous sketches, and articles on various topics, showcasing the work of over seventy different authors. It includes works that had not previously appeared in any other anthology. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 557 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by OGG, OSCAR TYPOGRAPHY & DESIGN (illustrator). First Edition?. Page 37/38 missing, else bright, very nice, clean covers & text paperback; black spine titles on dar orange heavy cloth hard covers.showing many 2" hoizontal bars to left side cover & spine.attractive design. ; 557pg THICK pages; originaly published in Vogue, this is 1st anthlogy appearance ever for any of them.Many by major authors.Most are short and characteristic of their author's larger work.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 557pp. Cloth toned along the edges and spine, a touch of soiling on the page edges, spine ends and corners gently rubbed, very good, lacking the dust jacket. Contributors include Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Thomas Wolfe, and others.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Good hardcover. Water stain and wrinkle on boards. Pages brown. Corners bent. Edges of spine bumped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Moderate shelf wear, scuff marks and toning from age within pages. Otherwise an overall undamaged and unmarked text.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A Good copy in a Good dust wrapper of a title which is "A brilliant, entertaining, witty, moving and surprising Collection on almost everything of importance by almost everybody of importance." Dust wrapper is wrapped in a Mylar cover. Dust wrapper flaps have corners cut. Wear to dust wrapper with sunning on the spine and closed tears on either end of spine. Wear creasing on both sides of spine on the dust wrapper. Small chipping along top edge of dust wrapper. Tan boards have crisp black lettering and red squares. Sunning to pages. Previous seller's price in pencil on front flyleaf. From Dedication page:"All of these pieces were originally published in "Vogue." None of them has ever appeared in any other anthology." Contents:"Conversational kleptomania / G.B. Stein; Rather late for Christmas / Mary Ellen Chase; A prologue to America / Thomas Wolfe; My life is an open book / Clifton Fadiman; Home to Truro / Robert Nathan; The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming / Ernest Hemingway; The world within us / Andre Maurois; The weather of our soul / Irwin Edman; Four painters / Hendrik Willem Van Loon; You're on the air now / Ilka Chase; Souvenir / Ludwig Bemelmans; Brooklyn is my neighborhood / Carson McCullers; Happy Land / Katherine Anne Porter; The China you don't know / Helena Kuo; The old town / William Saroyan; The Mrs. Astor I remember / Frank Crowninshield; Churchill's favourite aunt / Oliver St. John Gogarty; Dinner with Turbot / Ford Madox Ford; Landscape, with figures / Frederic Prokosch; Nehru of India / Krishnalal Shridharani; The passing of the blops / M.F. Agha; I remember Christmas in Holland / Pierre Van Paassen; I remember Christmas in Austria / Leo Lania; I remember Christmas in France / Andre Maurois; I remember Christmas in Belgium / Robert Goffin; Humour, the bomb-proof kind / Virginia Cowles; "We have with us this evening ." / Frank Crowninshield; They're human after all / Katharine Brush; Chungking's broadway / Clare Boothe; Ten answers on Japan / Wilfrid Fleisher; This never got into my column / Major George Fielding Eliot; But where is Picasso? / Andre Gery; I love you, I love you, I love you / Ludwig Bemelmans; Something to remember you by / Sylvia Thompson; I like the circus / Paul Gallico; Embroidery / Ivy Low; The impossible glory / Rebecca West; The scars of London / Cecil Beaton; Gertrude Stein in France / Therese Bonney; Here we stand / Mary Ellen Chase; Five pretty little fables / William Saroyan; Chile can amore / Ludwig Bemelmans; Me and the French / Margaret Case Harriman; Murder in the music-room / Samuel Chotzinoff; Art and camouflage / Elliot Paul; Off stage noises / Aline Bernstein; "Sarah Bernhardt left them kneeling" / Laurette Taylor; File No.113 / Robert Simon; Do men like witty women? / Stephen Leacock; Clare Boothe, in a velvet glove / Allene Talmey; Now at last a house of my own / Katherine Anne Porter; Dry Tortugas / Archibald MacLeish; Red mountain / Irwin Edman; Southern exposure / Ralph McGill; "Waiter, bring me anything" / Edward R. Bosley, Junior; A wit with a whim of iron / Frank Crowninshield; "Fanny you fool!" / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; The lady is an engineer / Patricia Strauss; I saw the Moscow blitz / Margaret Bourke-White; The wine-diver / V. Shishkov; Now . twenty centuries later / James Hilton; The voice of Africa / Stuart Cloete; "There was no more sea" / Mary Ellen Chase; Bucks county auction / Josephine Herbst; Perennial immortality / Lee Simonson; No bed of roses / Isabel Paterson; Orson, the wizard, Welles / J.P McEvoy; Anything for a laugh / Max Eastman; Thanks to Casey Jones / John Mason Brown; Decor and the morons / Ilka Chase; American women . so pretty / Jules Romains; Fashions in painting / Frank Crowninshield; Renaissance profiles / Leo Lerman; No trouble at all / Ludwig Bemelmans; The infant gourmet / Sheila Hibben; etc." "Description:"xvi, 557 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 27 cm.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Light blotching (ageing? ) on rear outside cover. ; Book is in Very Good condition. -tight binding and clean, unmarked interior and text. Excellent anthology of reknowned authors whose particular stories first appeared in this publication. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 557 pages.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Vogues First Reader by Conde Nast Publications. Published by Halcyon House, New York, NY, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardbound. No DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: VG. Orig owners bookplate inside front cover. 557 Pgs. Articles originally published in Vogue magazine. Introduction by Frank Crowninshield. it includes personalized essays, recollections of famous men, vistas of days now gone, humorous sketches, serious articles on music, pieces on literature, the state, the future of China; writings that allows seventy or more different authors to show the brilliant and varied facets of their nature. Description text copyright 2013 BooksForComfort. Item ID 29087. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Crisp and clean with a sunned spine though lettering is vivid. Excellent anthology of short pieces by authors including Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Thomas Wolfe, Ludwig Bemelmans, Carson McCullers, Rebecca West, Rex Stout, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Grey w/black lettering and pink decorations. Spine slightly darkened, mild edgewear, light soil shows on pale background. POS rfep, eps show mild discoloration due to aging binding glue. Text clean, lightly and evenly toned. Includes stories by Carson McCullers, G.B. Stern, Paul Gallico, Katherine Anne Porter, Rex Stout and many, many more.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Very nice and clean inside and out. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" ; 557 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xvi, 557pp, tan cloth with red and black decoration and lettering, overall clean and bright, with minor shelf lean, and foxing / toning at pastedowns, also ink name at front fly, in a dust jacket with occasional shallow chips, and several archival repairs noted, now housed in protective Brodart. This volume, in its various editions (1942, 1944, and 1949), and the coffee table book, The World In Vogue, from 1963, are the only publications of this essay that appeared originally in Vogue Magazine, February, 1939. It is otherwise not available. From the opening paragraph, "At the end of the summer, the big trout would be out in the centre of the stream; they were leaving the pools along the upper part of the river and dropping down to spend the winter in the deep water of the canyon. It was wonderful fly-fishing then in the first weeks of September." See Hanneman B40.

8vo Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 557p. Previous owner's name penned on upper corner of front fly with an ex-libris bookplate on ffep. Endpages are toned, but text is unmarked with a warm patina. Binding is tight with hinges fully attached. Light brown cloth boards are clean and pointed with red lines, black lettering, and a green marker line on top edge of text-block. Dust jacket is protected in mylar with toning, closed tears along the extremities, clipped dj flaps, and a stain on spine. Assumed first edition, no other dates listed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine - condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. One page was misfolded and shows some creasing (page 547 / 548). There is a previous owner's inked name, and date (and sorority name) on the front pastedown page (neatly). The dust jacket has several nicks, beginning edge tears and edge wear / rubbing along with some sunning, especially to the spine. This book contains numerous writings from the pages of Vogue magazine: all of the works included in this volume have never been printed in any other anthology, making this a First Hardback Edition for a number of the works. Included are A Prologue to America by Thomas Wolfe, The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming by Ernest Hemingway (on fishing), Brooklyn is My Neighborhood by Carson McCullers, The Scars of London by Cecil Beaton, Five Pretty Little Fables by William Saroyan, Fanny - You Fool! by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, I Saw the Moscow Blitz by Margaret Bourke-White, These Grapes need Sugar by Rex Stout, and many more.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Australian Edition. 95 short stories by various authors. 557 pages. An ageing, but firm, clean straight book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. A compilation of stories first published in Vogue. Includes contributions by Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan, Ford Madox Ford, Clare Booth, Paul Gallico, Rex Stout, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, among many others. 557 pages. Gently bumped. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears, including a 4" tear at the upper rear panel. Price clipped, in new Brodart. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hemingway, Ernest 1st. ed. Story by Hemingway.Also Thomas Wolfe,Robert Nathan,Carson McCullers and others. v.g.-fine. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. HEMINGWAY CONTRIBUTION FIRST EDITION FINE.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. First Edition. Original cloth, fine, no markings, no bookplates. In very good plus dust jacket with some minor chipping to crown and foot of spine, also a minor dampstain to foot of spine. Hanneman B40, first appearance of this story by Hemingway. A difficult title to find in collectible condition due to its size and fragile nature of the dust jacket (wartime paper).